I wrote an obituary of the Nobel Prize winning poet Derek Walcott, published in The Guardian, Saturday 18th March A favourite Walcott poem of mine is “Love After Love” which you can read here.

Review (published Friday 24th February, i paper) Three Daughters of Eve By Elif Shafak Viking, £14.99 “Motherlands are beloved, no doubt; sometimes they can also be exasperating and maddening. Yet I have also come to learn that for writers and poets for whom national borders and cultural barriers are there to be questioned, again and…

Travellers’ Tales: The Holes in History published