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Selections
Selected Issue: Banipal 66, Travels (Autumn/Winter 2019)
POETRY
A poem
What matters is the dough
then add whatever toppings you like,
said one of us all of a sudden
I don’t remember who now,
perhaps we had heard it on a cookery programme
OTHER SELECTIONS
From the feature on "Travels"
In my orange notebook I wrote: “I am escaping to Andalusia. I feel it is the only land that understands my sorrows and pains. No other land grasps the depth of my tragedies. Elsewhere tyrants scorch the earth and vegetation, stifle hymns of freedom, crucify lovers, and spread loathing and devastation. Only beloved Andalusia can shield me from their evil.
OTHER SELECTIONS
From the Banipal 66 feature on "Travels"
The road from Zagreb to Sarajevo is a little over four hundred kilometres. I studied the road map in the morning and reckoned that the journey would take about five hours, taking account of the time spent stopped at the Bosnian border guard post. I started the engine and headed south, towards another life, another horizon . . .
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The Madness of Despair
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