Can I Bring my own Gun? John Ashbery

Can I Bring my own Gun? John AshberySeth Freedman is a contracted journalist on the Guardians Comment is Free, his reports are followed, praised and condemned in equal measure, by tens of thousands of readers. He reports from the front line of Israel and Palestine, and also behind the lines. As a former Israeli soldier reporting from the West Bank he is unique. Seth Freedman's blog from Jerusalem has become an instant must read for those who follow this most intractable of conflicts.

"is the simple idea so hard to achieve

Vladimir Khodasevich

Poems by Adonis

and reprinted in 2000

and literary festivals photo-reports

His debut collection is gritty and irreverent

using his rubber stamps and linocuts

Galician-Portuguese Troubadour Poetry translated by Richard Zenith

has just jumped from the twentieth floor

A superb collection that celebrates the hundreds of varied islands scattered off Britain and Ireland's coasts

The Spectator

The first and most difficult task of a translator is