The North 43 Meles Negusse 'The Hiding Room' does not

'The Hiding Room' does not look back nostalgically

move among the languages

the Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon – scene of the Shatila massacre of 1982

Mohammad al-Maghut – Five Poems

Mohamed Mansi Qandil – Moon over Samarqand and Hayan Charara’s Arab American poetry anthology

The North 43 Meles Negusse 'The Hiding Room' does notThe biggest single issue of the magazine ever, North 43 features 70 poems by 37 poets, including Roy Fisher, Mimi Khalvati and Paidraig O'Morain and articles by John McAuliiffe and Bernard O'Donoghue on Seamus Heaney, Jonathan Davidson on learning Peter Didsbury by heart and Neil Curry on Edward Thomas as well as the ever popular Blind Criticism and Poets I Go Back To features, together with two poems from each of the winners in the 2008 9 Book &