The Twenty-Ninth Year cookbook Caught in a lightning thunderstorm

Caught in a lightning thunderstorm

Represent a diversity of children to enable children from all backgrounds to increasingly relate to and therefore accept and develop friendships with each other

surprising and moving

like how you can’t see your nose

Bilal wants to introduce his friends to daal

The Twenty-Ninth Year cookbook Caught in a lightning thunderstormFor Hala Alyan, twenty nine is a year of transformation and upheaval, a year in which the pastmemories of family members, old friends and past lovers, the heat of another land, another language, a different faithwinds itself around the present. Halas ever shifting, subversive verse sifts together and through different forms of forced displacement and the tolls they take on mind and body. Poems leap from war torn cities in the Middle East, to an