The Dance of the Fig Tree by Emné Nasreddine, translated and introduced by Stuart Bell family Beowulf – the earliest surviving

Beowulf – the earliest surviving English epic – was written down at some point between the eighth and the early eleventh centuries

There are also poems of celebration

a freethinker and a liberal at a time of repression

Professor of English Literature

The Dance of the Fig Tree by Emné Nasreddine, translated and introduced by Stuart Bell family Beowulf – the earliest survivingThree generations of women: Teta, the grandmother, Fadwa, the mother, and Emne, the daughter who captures the tenderness of her fore bearers. The poems in this collection recall and restore a family lineage broken by war, death and exile. the87press