Say It AgainVery ready we are to say of a book, How good it is thats exactly what I think! But the right feeling is, What the hell did I just read? John Ruskin Why a book of misquotations? Because whats captured in such a book is the jittery, jumbled essence of truth: that wisdom and edict alike are constantly customised, iterated, adjusted. Nothing stays the same. Say It Again gathers the sage words of philosophers, statesmen, artists and authors alongside

while the taken-for-granted basics of our human background – day

running water’s burning catharsis

The front cover image is of Iraqi-Jewish writer Maryam al-Mulla (1927-2013)

bought at a village fete as a school-student

who uses a panoply of vocabularies to evoke the medical

where love

Amal AL-Jabouri

" Record Collector

remembering the pain of the mutual cultural incomprehension – she is a St Lucian – that ended the marriage almost twenty years before

a horse galloping backwards

County Tipperary

Deacon Mac