Deaf Republic Khashayar 'Kess' Mohammadi Composed in the twelfth century

Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran

which combines the styles of The New York School and Britain’s Tom Raworth

measured lyric to Dickinson-inspired gnomic utterance

in Luxor / today He Rises

His poetry varies from fables and parables to clear-cut columns of words

Deaf Republic Khashayar 'Kess' Mohammadi Composed in the twelfth centuryIlya Kaminsky The long awaited new collection from Ilya Kaminsky: a remarkable parable in poems which asks us, what is silence? Deaf Republic opens in a time of political unrest in an occupied territory. It is uncertain where we are or when, in what country or during what conflict, but we come to recognise that these events are also happening here, right now. This astonishing parable in poems unfolds episodically like a play, its powerful narrative