The Stone Serpent: Barates of Palmyra's Elegy for Regina his BelovedSyrian poet Nouri al Jarrah brings to life a story that can never again be lost in time after a single line in Aramaic on a tombstone fired his imagination. This inspiring epic poem awakens two extraordinary lovers, Barates, a Syrian from Palmyra, and Regina, the Celtic slave he freed and married, from where they have lain at rest beside Hadrians Wall for eighteen centuries, and tells their unique story. Barates elegy to his beloved wife, who died

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The Intended’s portrayal of the instability of identity and relations between whites

was shortlisted for the T

Tom Hadaway is the most acclaimed living dramatist in the North-East

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Carrie Etter lives in Bradford on Avon and teaches creative writing at Bath Spa University

plus works by poet-novelist Anton Shammas and 11 other poets

The Bones of Creation was published in April 2008

which plunge to the edge of despair without falling prey to the merely personal

Her hard-hitting

Reader in Catalan Studies at Fitzwilliam College

all of which threaten to drag him back to where he came from