Daytime Astronomy Mike Wilson Mahmoud Shukair – Windows of

Mahmoud Shukair – Windows of Jerusalem

translated by Ken Cockburn

Why Did You Leave The Horse Alone

taught for thirty years

Ahmad Saadawi and Shakir Nouri

Daytime Astronomy Mike Wilson Mahmoud Shukair – Windows ofEight years in the making, the poems in Daytime Astronomy were, like the rest of us, born in the heart of a dying star. They span places as far afield as Belfast, Dublin, Glasgow, Moscow, Phnom Penh and Shanghai, and all the liminal spaces in between. The poems explore time and space, pain and abandoned love, faced with a hill to climb to catch the world home. Paul Grattan was born in Glasgow in 1971. He moved to the north of Ireland in 1995, and