Writers on Islands Joumana Haddad and cheeks of mingled red

and cheeks of mingled red and white

Samuel Shimon interviews the Tunisian author

Alicia Ostriker

Editorial: Thank You for your Support

Writers on Islands Joumana Haddad and cheeks of mingled redSome of the countrys leading writers are captured in this unique anthology which celebrates the many and varied islands around our shores. Kathleen Jamie, Mervyn Peake, John Betjeman, Brendan Behan, Hugh MacDiarmid, Louis MacNeice, Geoffrey Grigson, W. B. Yeats, George Orwell, and Kathleen Raine are just a few of the 50 authors whose prose works evoke and record in a whole variety of ways, the culture, lives and essence of island life. The collection