MARIA DUARTE, JAMES WALSH and ANDY HEDGECOCK review The Invite, My Father’s Island, Nirvanna: the Band, the Show, the Movie, and Oh My Goodness!
Bitter-sweet encounters with love, exile and home
Don’t Forget the Couscous
by Amin Darwish (Smokestack Books, £7.95)
DURING the second Gulf war the Kurdish poet Amir Darwish came to Britain as an asylum-seeker, by hanging underneath a lorry on a cross-Channel ferry.
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