Ruins and Other Poems Grace Nissan as an impoverished refugee fleeing

as an impoverished refugee fleeing the devastation of civil war

as Abdelfattah Kilito put it

myth and play to weather the days

how delightful // And I know They are intended / as gifts” In this fragmented language we are being shown a new way to hold the whole of perception together

we are given access as never before to the life and poetic development of a literary titan - from his early days in Belfast

Ruins and Other Poems Grace Nissan as an impoverished refugee fleeingSamer Abu Hawwash In these poems, Samer Abu Hawwash stands upon ancient and modern ruins, engaging with the archetypal Arabic qasida and its echoes in the present, set against a backdrop of exile, displacement, and genocide. The site of the ruin, the journey, and the return home are the three movements of the archetypal Arabic form with which Samer contends in his book length poem. Writing in and from the moment of crisis, the poet keeps returning to