Forever, Now J P Das Over the last fifty years

Over the last fifty years he has published 32 collections of his own poems and translated many works of major international poets and fiction writers

but at home he says nothing of what he is going through

His previous three novels – Dark Covenant (“A word-of-mouth publishing sensation”

Diane Abu-Jaber’s Origin

• Writers who are completely new to Western readers are Nazum al-Obeidi and Nassif Falak (who has his own hair-raising personal story of flight

Forever, Now J P Das Over the last fifty yearsHelen Cadbury's Forever, Now charts the lives of extraordinary, ordinary humans, including the poet herself; but also those she has lived among, worked with, observed on buses and trains or discovered in the archives. Sometimes those true beginnings spiral into fiction, sometimes they remain autobiographical, as they tell moving and universal stories of love and loss, grief and new beginnings. Emily Dickinson wrote that 'forever is comprised of nows'.