The Poet & the Private Eye Taleb Alrefai with fellow Valley Press author

with fellow Valley Press author Sue Wilsea

a compelling cocktail of ideas and imagination

which has a profound effect on both

and Western governments do not know how to respond

Poems from the collections Gift of the Void and Over There You Stay

The Poet & the Private Eye Taleb Alrefai with fellow Valley Press authorIn October 1953, Time magazine hired a private detective to shadow Dylan Thomas during what turned out to be his last visit to New York City. Dylan had taken out a libel suit against Time because of a less than flattering profile the magazine had published about him some months before. Time intended to use any new material gathered by the detective to defend its portrait of Dylan who, they alleged: argues like a Bolshevik, dresses like a bum drinks