The Last One Nisha Ramayya

The Last One Nisha RamayyaThe daughter of Algerian immigrants, Fatima Daas is raised in a home where love and sexuality are considered taboo and signs of affection avoided. Living in the majority Muslim Clichy sous Bois, she often spends more than three hours a day on public transport to and from the city, where she feels like a tourist observing Parisian manners. She goes from unstable student to maladjusted adult, doing four years of therapy her longest relationship. As she

Will she survive the dangers and return home to Wales

was Poet in Residence at The Bishopsgate Institute

His work has been translated widely

from poèmes sans domicile fixe to poèmes moraux et politiques

Includes poems by Michael Longley

with this as a scaffold she charts how medical

constructing her second tongue in a defamiliarised way without the cliches and lazy comforts of acquaintance

In a small corner of one of its many cities

and still pertinent

stay in those days

Ben Sanderson

Beryl Gilroy transports the reader back to the Guyanese village of her childhood over sixty years ago to meet such characters as Mr Dewsbury the Dog Doctor