On the Beach with Chet Baker Evelyn Shakir Whatever their subjects

Whatever their subjects

the latest translation of a novel by the late Nobel laureate for literature

sensuous and thought provoking -- everything one expects from Opal Palmer Adisa

He is formerly Professor of Arabic Literature at McGill University

Peter Porter

On the Beach with Chet Baker Evelyn Shakir Whatever their subjects"Presence and absence, some sort of together" ('On the Beach with Chet Baker'). These are the three places that Robert Seatter's second book of poems explores, with deftness, insight and artistry. They move from places of stasis and memory, through the uneasy proximities of love captured in the moody jazz trumpet of the title poem, and out to the uncharted spaces that loss and death can create. His arresting imagination is equally at home with the