EstuaryIn todays unstable world, where does the conversation about the future begin? In Estuary, his fifth collection of poems, diplomat and poet Philip McDonagh celebrates personal relationships and reflects on public affairs in ways that cross cultural and civilizational boundaries. A common language of beauty, goodness, and hope gradually imposes itself.

Josephine is already haunted

To celebrate publishing 21 issues of Banipal

essays by Brodsky and Auden

having made an appointment

Buntin writes with scrupulous attention to the agency of love in a wounded and venomous world

and the booming harp business today

ignorance and prejudice

a state of the nation archive of a life-long socialist

topple a dictator and organise a party for a four-year-old

You’ve lost weight: your pyjamas hang off your arms like the wilting leaves of a dying plant

in which everything is alive and – like the sea itself – constantly shifting form

The issue opens with a major 70-page feature on the life and legacy of Mahmoud Darwish