Lairs Jawdat Fakhreddine Banipal 52 – New Fiction

Banipal 52 – New Fiction presents new works by Habib Abdulrab Sarori

and what had been my family’s culture – though it was music

Walter Castle is festering with dissatisfactions in the Laventille slum in Port of Spain

Secret Shelter continues the story of witness protection officer

and describes Marrakech as “a cosmic uterus”

Lairs Jawdat Fakhreddine Banipal 52 – New FictionWhat do animal dens have in common with mathematics? Lairs is darkly suggestive of secretive havens and shelters, but also frames the poem as an equation. This collection is both a kind of nest and a beautiful accumulation of dense detail. Lairs also highlights the contrast between noble aspirations and a messy reality, the poems atmospheres being sometimes borrowed from the fervid pandemic lockdowns. The innovative style is daring and embraces