John Ormond: Collected Poems Mohamed el-Bisatie Fadhil al-Azzawi remembers Jalil al-Qaisi

Fadhil al-Azzawi remembers Jalil al-Qaisi (1936–2006)

‘shrapnel heads’ and airport toilets

with Jacques Chuto et al

Jazz writer Peter Vacher is well-known for his numerous interviews and reviews published in British

She has been published in Ireland by Salmon Poetry in the anthology Poetry: Reading it

John Ormond: Collected Poems Mohamed el-Bisatie Fadhil al-Azzawi remembers Jalil al-QaisiJohn Ormond (1923 1990) is one of the remarkable generation of poets born in south Wales in the early 1920s which includes Dannie Abse and Leslie Norris. He was a friend of fellow Swansea writers Dylan Thomas and Vernon Watkins, both of whom were key influences on a poetry of consistently high standards. A significant number of his poems, many of them elegiac, probe his Welsh roots; others focus on aspects of the natural world. John Ormonds poems