Dear Friend(s) Fred Johnston Saadi Youssef – TRIBUTE to

Saadi Youssef – TRIBUTE to Mahdi Issa al-Saqr

a supple intelligence: a sprightly

After the world’s most isolated country emerged from Stalinist dictatorship and opened to capitalism

from George Gissing to Zadie Smith

Dear Friend(s) Fred Johnston Saadi Youssef – TRIBUTE toAnimated by many different types of kinship, the poems in Dear Friend(s) explore webs of experience that wind between parents, extended families and friends. They will take readers back to powerful, often early influences, which result from relations of likeness and empathy as well as blood. The long title poem is an elegy to a specific Dear Friend, dead from AIDS in its earliest years. Its also an elegy for the loss of innocence and freedom of sexual