The Kabul Olympics by John McAuliffe anthology R Williams Parry and Saunders

R Williams Parry and Saunders Lewis to folk poets such as Alun Cilie and Dic Jones

as well as historical figures

Di Giorgio’s writing transforms everything it touches—a lily

Through bramble

The Kabul Olympics by John McAuliffe anthology R Williams Parry and SaundersThe Kabul Olympics is a book of impossible places, from the imagined Kabul of the title poem to City of Trees which conjures an alternate, parallel Manchester in the aftermath of the Arena bombing, from a plane spiralling ever upwards into the eye of a storm in Godsend to the becalmed travels of The Harbours, a sequence which reflects on nationalism and border crossing. Many of these poems find themselves in the dark, on journeys whose destinations