CONTENTS

Welcome Page

Copyright

Dedication

Unknown Hour

Finding the Present

slept badly

liberty

A Shakespeare Portrait

Notre-Dame is Telling Us Something

A New Dream of Politics

closed, still open

The Unknown Hour

Convergence

lines on a drawing

outside the wedding

everest

hamlet

a little song

in a temple in seoul

convergence

Obama

Midday

africa is a reality not seen

a broken song

decolonisation

on race

The Insider

manetho’s books

siwah

boko haram

Amnesty at Forty

revolution

Dusk

a history of new forms

revelations of saint time

cosmosis

mother dance

for mirabella

dance of the new born

ballet of the unseen

shaved head poem

Invocation Hour

the angle

based on a translation

Diallo’s Testament

the rohingyas

breathing the light

invocation for the shrine 4

lines towards a love poem

Grenfell Tower, June 2017

walk in a moonlight wonder

About the Author

An Invitation from the Publisher