Lightning Beneath the Sea Ebtisam al-Mualla hands blue

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Jason Ranon

BANIPAL's first issue of 2014 presents a rich collection of a traditional art – stories by 21 authors

translated by Jo Catling and others

Olive Senior

Lightning Beneath the Sea Ebtisam al-Mualla hands blueLightning Beneath the Sea is a lively first collection of poems in English by Grahame Davies. He brings a native warmth, an intimate, conversational tone, and a raised cultural awareness to these poems. He favours rhyme and meter in a number of memorable instances like Capital Bookshop and Valley Villanelle; he can use a longer, narrative, free verse line as in Dangerous; and there are several found poems as in the witty The Complete Index of Welsh