Neverfield, The
29 January '14
An emerging young talent in the field of poetry and culture, Nathalie Handal, a French-American poet of Palestinian descent, writes with great passion and eloquence on the subjects of displacement, diaspora, and the search for cross-cultural identity.
Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?
29 January '14
At once an intimate autobiography and a collective memory of the Palestinian people, Mahmoud Darwish’s interlinked poems are collective cries, songs, and glimpses of the human condition. The collection—widely considered his chef-d’oeuvre—is a poetry of myth and history, of exile and suspended time, of an identity bound to the Arabic language and his displaced people. […]
Unfortunately, It was Paradise
29 January '14
Rumi: Words of Paradise
29 January '14
Here are Rumi’s love lyrics to the Shams of Tabriz–the inspirational, mysterious dervish who came into his life unbidden, forged with him a deep spiritual union, then abandoned him and left behind a yearning that Rumi transfigured into the divine Beloved. Here also are passages from Rumi’s great didactic epic, the Masnavi-ye Ma ‘navi, with […]
Deleted Part,The
29 January '14
Baghdad Blues, The
29 January '14
The Baghdad Blues presents documentary filmmaker/co-creator of About Baghdad, Sinan Antoon’s first poems in English. Antoon’s poems–many of them published in Banipal (London) and Across Borders, as well as anthologized–are not quite the thin trails they would appear to be. Antoon’s line, although lyrical, is packed with the absence and fury which ought to make […]
Crack in the Wall, A
29 January '14
This anthology of new Arab poetry highlights the work of a new generation of poets from around the Arab world-men and women from as far as Morocco to the West and Iraq to the East. Their writings may span three decades, but the new forms, styles and subject matters they experiment with clearly indicate a […]
I was a Point. I was a Circle
29 January '14
Midnight
29 January '14
“Midnight and Other Poems” is the first full-length poetry collection to be published in the UK by this remarkable Palestinian writer, previously known to English-language readers for his highly-acclaimed autobiography “I Saw Ramallah” (Bloomsbury, 2004). Mourid Barghouti has spent many years in exile and his long poem “Midnight” is a rich montage of images of […]