Issue 7 - Autumn/Winter 2021 - Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal
This is the Autumn/Winter 2021 issue of Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, edited by Naush Sabah. The prose in this issue includes translation features from Hindi, Tamil, and Italian; Mona Kareem writes a powerful critique of western translation practices in poetry publishing; Khaled Hakim considers rhythm and music through translations of Sufi poetry; Camille Ralphs interviews Karen Solie and Daljit Nagra; Dominic Leonard writes on expatriation in the work of Vahni Capildeo; we have a wide range of reviews including Jennifer Wong on three debuts; and poems from Anita Pati, Nuzhat Bukhari, Sam Riviere, Stav Poleg, former Birmingham poet laureates Roz Goddard and Roy McFarlane, and much more. See full listing below.
Prose
Reem Abbas reviews Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night and The Wild Fox of Yemen • Fahad Al-Amoudi reviews Of Sea • Romalyn Ante reviews PA-LIWANAG • Khaled Hakim on music lost in translation • Mona Kareem reviews Let Me Tell You What I Saw • Dominic Leonard on Vahni Capildeo • Amit Majmudar on Kabir • Barry Pierce reviews pandemonium • Brenda Porster on Federico Italiano • Camille Ralphs interviews Karen Solie and Daljit Nagra • Declan Ryan reviews Away From Me and Auscultation • Gene Seymour reviews Wicked Enchantment • Shash Trevett on the incarceration of Ahnaf Jazeem • Jeremy Wikeley on Spring Journal and Autumn Journal • Jennifer Wong reviews Forty Names, Speculum, and Honorifics • Karen McCarthy Woolf reviews Thinking with Trees and The Giddings
Poets
Reem Abbas • Ali Al-Jamri • Kate Bingham • Claire Booker • Nuzhat Bukhari • Gerry Cambridge • Jonathan Catherall • Kitty Donnelly • Mave Fellowes • Roz Goddard • Nicola Healey • Daisy Henwood • Lucy Holme • Federico Italiano • Ahnaf Jazeem • Kabir • Phil Kirby • Roy McFarlane • Anita Pati • Stav Poleg • Madeleine Pulman-Jones • Sam Riviere • Robert Selby • Samuel Tongue • Rory Waterman • Ashley George Williams • Ross Wilson
Editor
Naush Sabah