Modern Poetry of the Arab World
21 December '18
Pub: Penguin, 1986 This major new anthology reflects the extraordinary upsurge in Arab poetry since 1947.
All Faces But Mine: The Poetry of Samih Al-Qasim
08 February '17
All Faces but Mine gathers selected poems from the acclaimed Palestinian poet Samih Al-Qasim (1934-2014). A contemporary of Mahmoud Darwish, Al-Qasim was a celebrated resistance poet whose passionate call for independence inspired a generation of poets. In this award-winning volume, poems are drawn from fourteen of the poet’s collections published over the last twenty years […]
This Room is Waiting
31 January '17
Four award-winning UK poets come together with four Iraqi poets to create a truly unforgettable anthology that sheds new light on real lives in contemporary post-war Iraq. UK poets Jen Hadfield, winner of the TS Eliot Prize, Billy Letford, Krystelle Bamford and John Glenday collaborate with four contemporary Iraqi poets, including acclaimed Zahir Mousa, Sabreen […]
Mirages
25 January '17
Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Translated from the Arabic by Alicia F. Lam. This is the first full length English- Language translation of the beautifully crafted prose poems of Issa Makhlouf.
Sarabad
25 January '17
Well-known in the Arab world as a poet, essayist and translator, Abdulkareem Kasid, born in Basra in 1946, escaped from Iraq in 1978 and went to live in Aden. He lived and worked in Damascus for ten years before settling in London with his wife and two children. In recent years he has returned to […]
A Bird is Not a Stone: An Anthology of Contemporary Palestinian Poetry
25 January '17
A major collection of contemporary Palestinian poetry translated by 24 of Scotland’s very best writers including Alasdair Gray, Liz Lochhead, James Robertson, Jackie Kay, William Letford, Aonghas MacNeacail, DM Black, Tom Pow, Ron Butlin and John Glenday. A Bird is not a Stone is a unique cultural exchange, giving both English and Arabic readers a […]
Don’t Forget the Couscous
25 January '17
Don’t Forget the Couscous is a book of poetry about exile and home, love and loss. It is a beautiful love-song to the Arab world – Syria, Kurdistan, Morocco, Palestine and his native Aleppo. It is a memoir of the failed Arab Spring and the civil-war that has turned his native Syria into a ‘fountain […]
In the Wake of the Poetic: Palestinian Artists After Darwish (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East)
25 January '17
Heralding a new period of creativity, In the Wake of the Poetic explores the aesthetics and politics of Palestinian cultural expression in the last two decades. As it increasingly gains a significant presence on the international scene, much of Palestinian art owes a debt to Mahmoud Darwish, one of the finest contemporary poets, and to […]
Classical Poems by Arab Women: A Bilingual Anthology
24 January '17
Arab women poets have been around since the earliest of times, yet their diwans (collected poems) were not given the same consideration as their male counterparts’. Spanning 5,000 years, from the pre-Islamic to the Andalusian periods, Classical Poems by Arab Women presents rarely seen work by over fifty women writers for the first time. From […]
Desert Sorrows
24 January '17
No poet of the twentieth century has captured the experience of Arabic-speaking people in the modern world better than Tayseer al-Sboul. One of Jordan s most celebrated writers, educated in that country, as well as in Lebanon and Syria, he faced the dilemmas and contradictions of the Arab world during the Cold War years. Caught […]