Poems Written Through Barbed-wire Fences by Ro Mehrooz, edited by James Byrne Marc Swan as if they are singing

as if they are singing in the voice the mind uses when talking with itself or with its close close other

‘Gwnewch y pethau bychain — Do the little things’ (Dewi Sant/St David) — is how Fiona Owen signs off her communications

even in the tumult of the Middle East

aims to make his poetry more widely available to an English-language readership while the introduction by two eminent scholars of Russian literature sets it in its wider context

Poems Written Through Barbed-wire Fences by Ro Mehrooz, edited by James Byrne Marc Swan as if they are singingThis chapbook by Ro Mehrooz is the first time that the work of a single Rohingyan poet has appeared in print in a bilingual edition. The Rohingya people continue to experience genocide at the hands of the Myanmar military, so it is not surprising that Ros poems are full of anger, anguish and despair, although there are moments of light as he reflects upon the traditions and customs of his people. James Byrnes informative introduction, together with