Poems featured
- Truth
- Growing up in two dreams
- Glacier
- Shadow
- In the temple of a patient god
- Lalesh
- Every woman knows her own tree
- If this is a lament
- Full moon over Karbala
- Ceremonial robes
- I know the unspoken
- There is no spring
- A Dead Sun
Published
£6
Publisher: Poetry Translation Centre
ISBN: 978-0-9575511-7-6
Featured poets: Bejan Matur
Featured translators: Jen Hadfield, Canan Marasligil
Bejan Matur is the most illustrious poet among a bold new women’s poetry emerging from the Middle East. Her poetry engages directly and concretely with the struggles of her people, and yet there is also a mysticism in her writing, a closeness to nature, an embracing of mythology – a dialogue with God. She is translated in this collection by Canan Marasligil, working with renowned Shetland poet Jen Hadfield, who won the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2008.
With thanks to Göksenin Abdal