Banipal 37 – Iraqi Authors Dima Wannous What is anything that can

What is anything that can be observed or thought and how do our words account for

He’ll grow up without milk

Jessie Lendennie's prose poem Daughter was first published in 1988

translated by Anna Crowe

translated by Sasha Dugdale

Banipal 37 – Iraqi Authors Dima Wannous What is anything that canBanipals first issue of 2010 celebrates authors from Iraq with over half its 224 pages devoted to fiction and poetry by 21 writers from different generations, some spread across the world, but many writing from within the country. We celebrate, in particular, a new generation of Iraqi fiction writers and poets who are free to write the story of Iraq weve been waiting to hear, however hard, and are indebted to all the translators and copy editors who