Butterfly Valley Robin Robertson from the acclaimed poet and

from the acclaimed poet and translator of Gawain and the Green Knight

A selection of poems that addresses the quotidian and the global

Many of our founding myths and legends are told here – King Arthur and Gawain

Bea Webster

we see Duffy satirise and unpick the deception and dishonesty at the heart of our current political situation

Butterfly Valley Robin Robertson from the acclaimed poet andThe late 1980s witnessed two devastating chemical attacks by the Saddam rgime on Iraqi Kurdistan. The first of these, in 1988, known as the Anfal campaign, saw the destruction of 3000 Kurdish villages, over 40 chemical attacks launched, and 100,000 civilians buried in mass graces, with hundreds more dying of exposure to chemical weapons. The second attack was on the town of Halabja where over 5000 people died instantly. Thousands of people who had