The Murders of Boysie Singh Raphael Cohen

The Murders of Boysie Singh Raphael CohenThe Murders of Boysie Singh, first published in 1962, is a classic for several reasons. It tells the true but almost unbelievable story of a Trinidadian gang leader Boysie Singh. For more than a decade he and his ruthless henchmen terrorised Port of Spain and the seas around it, controlled gambling dens, night clubs and brothels and dealt out savage punishment who got in his way. And there were still more sinister legends that he murdered scores of

series of poems that use a single line from a contemporary poet

The title sequence celebrates Cook

Cyphers and The Stinging Fly (as a featured poet)

His book collects colour photographs of the battlefield – its topography

Who hasn’t dreamed of living in

Among the book reviews in Banipal 47 are reviews of works by two winners of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction: Saudi Arabian author Abdo Khal’s winning novel Throwing Sparks

imposed on her by her family

He always finds the sublime in the everyday and the miracle in the mundane

Set on the eve of world war

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to Chris McCabe’s complex

He has published six books of poetry including Just as Blue