Notebook in Hand: New and Selected Poems Peter Stead Afghanistan and North Africa to

Afghanistan and North Africa to Europe

He is also the co-founder of Poets for Human Rights

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He was never able to commit himself utterly to an intellectual environment where reform and political change were debated

‘In these locked down and unfocused times the short story is a much needed respite from the current Covid-19 bleakness

Notebook in Hand: New and Selected Poems Peter Stead Afghanistan and North Africa toNotebook in Hand is a selection from John Rety's five collections as well as unpublished and new poems he was still writing up until his untimely death in February 2010.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