Mortimer At LargeMORTIMER AT LARGE is a selection of the best columns written by Peter Mortimer since 2003, and published weekly in the News Guardian series of newspapers on North Tyneside. The Mortimer column is unlike any other column in the region, a unique mix of the comic, the satirical, the surreal and the bizarre. Whether he is advocating an underwater theatre festival, revealing weapons of mass destruction in a Whitley Bay litter bin, inviting Prince Harry to

Ahmad Fu’ad Nigm

who is 27 with already several literary awards to his name

and the three plays published here affirm a strongly poetic stage voice which speaks powerfully for a region and a way of life it knows intimately

Tribute to Mohamed Choukri (1935 - 2003)

Blodeuedd’s husband is later reinstated by his uncle

His poetry is encamped in that border country where Raymond Williams also lived: pitched between attraction and repulsion

+ Drafts of a Shcherbina translation by Derek Walcott

“Stimulating…wide-ranging

fan-tailed poems is a constant delight

Mohammed Dib: Short story The Companion

A Note on James Kirkup

and he takes me very seriously and thinks that is right for me