A Foreign Country Matthew Hedley Stoppard surveying their circumstances on one

surveying their circumstances on one particular day

and geographically between Castellammare del Golfo in Sicily and Split

whether beginner or well-established

Huzama Habayeb

A Foreign Country Matthew Hedley Stoppard surveying their circumstances on oneIn A Foreign Country, Nigel Pantling takes us to some strange places the exotic, the imaginary and the rediscovered past and for each he serves up a heady local brew, equal parts memory, invention, wit and menace. Here, North Korean tourists rub shoulders with Syrian adventurers, the newly dead with a City lothario, Popeye and Olive Oyl with Cold War warriors. Surprising and unsettling by turns, these poems are a whistle stop journey though different