A Bird is Not a Stone is reprinting…
It’s true! After just three months, the initial print run of 1200 copies has already sold out, and Freight Books are sending A Bird is Not a Stone off to […]
Watch: Maya Abu al-Hayyat and Christine de Luca – In Love/في الحبّ
With many thanks to Elliott Bannister, a wonderful video of Christine de Luca reading Graham Fulton’s English-language version of In Love, her own Shetlandic version, and finally Maya Abu al-Hayyat […]
A Bird… starts its UK tour
Yesterday saw the first event in the A Bird is Not a Stone tour of Scotland and England, kicking off with a fantastic reading at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. […]
Bad news and good news…
The A Bird is Not a Stone family has had both good and bad news recently. With contributors from Gaza, it is sadly almost inevitable that the Palestinian poets and […]
On Translating the Work of a Deceased Poet
By Telche Abu Sulttan Upon completing the bridge translation of Qarqati’s poem, ‘bayt fi washm al-kharif’, reworked as ‘A Home with Fall’s Brand’ by Harry Giles, the translation numbered ten […]
We’re ‘Book of the Day’ on Bella Caledonia!
Many thanks to Bella Caledonia for our first review… A Bird is Not a Stone Edited by Henry Bell and Sarah Irving (Freight Books, Glasgow) is the first major collection […]
A Bird is Not a Stone is OUT
Here are the first copies of A Bird is Not a Stone to get out into the big wide world… lots more will be coming out to play at the […]
