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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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