Terebinthos: Poems and Stone Fragments Rima Buaini

Terebinthos: Poems and Stone Fragments Rima BuainiThe Terebinth Tree was sacred to the ancient Persians a healing tree. Terebinthos, Gordon Walmsley's fourth poetry collection, explores this symbolism and takes it further, into poetry. In doing so, his poems range through conventional form and lyric voice to provocative fragments of intuitive, disparate images. Haunting insights lie side by side with poems of social import and stark realism. Walmsley is adept with the multi faceted aspects of human

she’s now divorced

the wedding at Charles Street Carnival

set in Spain and south-east Wales

Mohamed Berrada

— Jewish Historical Studies

she catches a whiff of something expensive in his Jag and is ensnared by a gift so desirable it may prove fatal

Hassouna Mosbahi – Excerpt from the novel A Tunisian Tale

as well as a review of his own award-winning poetry collection

a genre which includes some of her finest writing

who is still in bed

Gintaras Grajauskas

Katy Derbyshire