The Arches David Gardiner

The Arches David GardinerTwenty 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

The Spring Banipal highlights some of the numerous events already this year which focus on literature from the Arab world

and finds areas of common influence among these various distinctive writers

you look up:

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He hugged me and maintained a silent gaze

Etel Adnan and 11 others

to see what it is that gives that particular form of words life

and between the physical world and how poets have been conditioned to observe and represent it

while his contemporary Alun Lewis is celebrated as one of Britain's finest writers