If You Want Thunder Karen McNeil Pyramid Texts by Gamal al-Ghitani

Pyramid Texts by Gamal al-Ghitani translated by Humphrey Davies

The angry young cosmopolitan men and women in today’s Egypt are impatient for change and for recognition of the stamp of individuality

and portrait poems of greedy politicians

Paul Durcan

If You Want Thunder Karen McNeil Pyramid Texts by Gamal al-GhitaniRuth Valentine's tenth collection encompasses the tragedies of the public world civil wars in Syria and Sudan, knife crime in North London, the Iraq Iran war and our private griefs. At the heart of the book is an extraordinary alphabetical sequence about the Grenfell Tower dead and the society that allowed them to die. Its a book about the morality of politics and the mortality of us all, a study in remembrance and forgetting, about the indifferent