Clasp Kamil Peteraj Samuel Shimon on Saif al-Rahbi

Samuel Shimon on Saif al-Rahbi poet and editor of Nizwa

there are moments of hope

don’t weep

this is a no-punch-unpulled diary of a young man who found himself at the UK core of a vital new music which rattled the mainstream and shook the floors of jazz clubs from New York to London in the fifties

Chris Beckett

Clasp Kamil Peteraj Samuel Shimon on Saif al-RahbiClasp is award winning poet Doireann N Ghrofas first English language collection of poems. In three sections entitled Clasp, Cleave and Clench, N Ghrofa engages in a strikingly physical way with the world of her subject matter. The result is by times what one poem calls A History in Hearts, among other things an intimate exploration of love, childbirth and motherhood, and simultaneously a place of separation and anxiety. In one poem set in the boys