The Arches Keith Bosley Mohammed Darwish Ali & Taha

Mohammed Darwish Ali & Taha Hamid Shabeeb

Kat Pomfret – author of Paradise Jazz

• Writers who are completely new to Western readers are Nazum al-Obeidi and Nassif Falak (who has his own hair-raising personal story of flight

He teaches creative writing in the Castlebar campus of GMIT (Galway Mayo Institute of Technology)

The Arches Keith Bosley Mohammed Darwish Ali & TahaTwenty five surreal collages by John Digby, set in an ornate arch from the Alhambra, suggest a multiplicity of narratives and provide provocative starting points for poet Tony Curtis. Giraffes in slings, a toppling Statue of Liberty, woolly mammoths, an enthroned bull, a monster pear and giant apple, flying fishes, a crazed Noah all are among the many intriguing images to which the poet has responded in The Arches. Like the collages, his poems may ask