Republic Zainab Hifni The floor-vendors and stallholders were

The floor-vendors and stallholders were stampeding out of the market gates at the side and front entrances

when fiction is so much more enticing

and took them back indoors

Archer has written its lexicon out of idioms of displaced beings

she finds herself thrust into a series of adventures with a mercurial rogue called Chivalry

Republic Zainab Hifni The floor-vendors and stallholders wereThis sequence of 80 prose poems, each constructed in 20 sentences, has arisen from the authors need to tell a more intimate history, to commit an untold oral history to paper. Williams returns to the meaning of republic in its Latin origins which meant wealth of the people. The explosion of the arts and culture looms large, through bands from New Order to My Bloody Valentine, but it is explored specifically through C? l Cymru, and the power of Welsh