Are You Ready? Khalid Kishtainy translated and adapted from The

translated and adapted from The Decameron

Why has Elly such power over them all

He writes regularly for the Guardian

only two poets in this issue – Siham Bouhlal

Are You Ready? Khalid Kishtainy translated and adapted from The"The Ireland of 2009 has almost as many 'serious' poets as it does blocks of unsold apartments. What I love about John Corless's poetry is that instead of pretending to sit po faced on the summit of Mount Parnassus, it goes absolutely in the opposite direction. Like Swift, Paul Durcan and Rita Ann Higgins before him, Corless takes the low road and shines the telltale torchlight of his killer wit into all the most embarrassing areas of contemporary