Granny’s Interpreter Abdah Khal And when Avatar’s narratives of

And when Avatar’s narratives of the experiences of his past selves are revealed to have an authenticity that cannot be explained away

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Mehdi Charef: continuing excerpt from Alexina’s House

Granny’s Interpreter Abdah Khal And when Avatar’s narratives ofGrannys Interpreter includes new and used, published and unpublished poems which wheel around home, belonging and memory on a sliding scale between tenderness and satire and between bereavement and celebration. Many of them have been coloured by the decades in which Ian Watson has lived an emotional tug of war in Germany: between mother and mother in law tongue, between Irish parents and their German grandchildren. They are the chronicle of a