Alindarka's Children Shawqi Shafiq Love letters come from Libya

Love letters come from Libya and desperate postcards from Powys

and starts to talk”

these poems combine the sensuous and the numinous

Mai Ghoussoub – a Tribute

Alindarka's Children Shawqi Shafiq Love letters come from LibyaThe masterful English debut of Alhierd Bacharevic, a new voice from Belarus Alicia and her brother Avi are imprisoned in a camp on the edge of a forest where children are trained to forget their language through therapy, coercion, drugs, and larynx surgery. The Leid (or Belarusian language) is considered a sickness to be cured and replaced by the only pure form of language, the Lingo (Russian). A contemporary Hansel and Gretel adventure, the children