Exile Sandra McPherson Latifa Labsir and Hanane Derkaoui

Latifa Labsir and Hanane Derkaoui from Morocco

and poetry as a political paradigm

These ideas have been the guiding principles behind the poems collected in this volume

along with new poems responding to Yeats’s work by Irish and international poets such as Margaret Atwood

Exile Sandra McPherson Latifa Labsir and Hanane DerkaouiExile is a collection of short stories with the taste of a novel. The over riding theme is the sense of melancholy of those who have been alienated from their homeland, from their families or from society. By offering the reader short, vivid glimpses into other worlds; be they of real or fictional characters, Ilhan builds a patchwork of stories which highlight the lives of the dispossessed. As a woman writing in modern day Turkey, she is not afraid to