In the 8th episode of The Bookend meet  A R Arthur, an emerging  poet of mixed ethnicities from Middle East whose poems are reflective of his coming-of-age journey while travelling back and forth between the UK. US and Kuwait.  Apart from several publications in literary journals, there are three chapbooks to his credit titled as The Great Northern Journey, Vultures and Half Bred which won The Poetry Question chapbook contest 2021. Currently, AR Arthur is the editor-in-chief of a prestigious literary journal Fahmiden Journal/Publishing.

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