Lightyear Howard Sargeant The regular Literary Infuences feature

The regular Literary Infuences feature is provided by the late renowned and respected Jordanian writer Ghalib Halasa from a collection of his articles on writing

Hatif Janabi

In reading the poems of this finely crafted and lyrical book

Weissbort provides a unique insight into Hughes’s views on translation and on his interest in making accessible the work of foreign-language poets and classical drama

Lightyear Howard Sargeant The regular Literary Infuences featureLightyear is the story of a journey from January to December, a walk through the seasons, a year full of outdoor danger and delights. Inspired by the Swedish poet Staffan Sderblom's "Six October Poems", Lightyear tracks the calendar changes of time and the elements on the body in the landscape. The poems were written in over a three year period, in the country and in the city, in North London, Cornwall, Scotland, Greece and the French Alps. Lightyear