Song of our Swampland Norbert HirschhornWhen the killing starts in Dhaka, the villagers know the army from West Pakistan will soon be in their area, but unlike the other young men, and his beloved step sister Moni Banu, Kamal cannot join the resistance. Born with a hole for a mouth, most people, except Abbas Miah, the teacher who adopts him, his friends and Moni Banu, regard him as the village idiot. With Abbas Miah, Kamal embarks on a Noahs ark journey, with the motley survivors of the
is the only one which actively bridges the gap between page and stage poetry
when the Evin loudspeakers
factory workers
but also compassion
but also in statements and short essays ñ the varying but never easy relationship between poetry and the state
Ahmed Mourad – Excerpt from the novel Vertigo
University of London and has held visiting professorships at Columbia University and the University of Wisconsin
including one short lyric where floodwater puddles seem to resemble war-torn continents
Nutter's first collection
Nineteen Forty-eight is his second novel in Pushkin sonnets
two haiku versions of Lucretius
His poetry is strangely akin to modern rock poetry in its erotic thrust
