Notebook in Hand: New and Selected Poems Peter Stead Mona Abdulkader al-Ali – A

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Notebook in Hand: New and Selected Poems Peter Stead Mona Abdulkader al-Ali – ANotebook in Hand is a selection from John Rety's five collections as well as unpublished and new poems he was still writing up until his untimely death in February 2010. His poetry is both simple and complex tender, funny, poignant, and companionable, it is also edgy, acerbic, troubled and disappointed. As well as his better known comic poetry, Notebook in Hand presents tender lyrics and trenchant political meditations, some of which may surprise, but