To the Winds Our SailsThe best writing from Galicias outstanding contemporary women poets awaits the reader of To the Winds Our Sails. Co edited by Irish poet Mary ODonnell and Galician scholar Manuela Palacios, this anthology offers a unique insight into the imaginative, social, ecological and personal preoccupations with which Galician poets have engaged in recent decades. Ten poets ranging in age, experience and style, are represented with five translations each. An

ancient and modern

write poetry

Some twelve kilometers away are the holes

he now lives and writes in Connemara

bright-voiced and strangely familiar

long-distance drivers

INTERVIEW with Rashid al-Daif

Margaret Obank Seven by Ghazi Algosaibi

based loosely on the life of Kate O'Brien

who extend back proudly through past the Civil War in America on one side

Ounsi El-Hage

and an excerpt from Adonis’s latest poem 'A Concerto for Jerusalem'