Knife Sharpener by Sargon Boulus John Manson Peter Hughes has taken Cavalcanti’s

Peter Hughes has taken Cavalcanti’s groundbreaking poems and used them as springboards for his own creative versions

Impertinent owls

Mattar’s splenetic energy gushes out like water from a fire hydrant

to her poetry and demonstrates mastery of her medium

Knife Sharpener by Sargon Boulus John Manson Peter Hughes has taken Cavalcanti’sKnife Sharpener Selected Poems is a posthumous commemoration and celebration of Sargon Boulus, in a collection of poems, written between 1991 and 2007 that he translated himself, together with an essay, "Poetry and Memory", written a few months before he died in October 2007. With a Foreword by Adonis and an Introduction by Dublin poet and publisher Pat Boran, the volume includes nine pages of photographs and tributes from fellow poets and writers