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Selected Poems

First English-language collection for Ramsey Nasr, the Palestinian-Dutch Poet Laureate of the Netherlands. 
Translated from the Dutch by David Colmer. Introduction by Victor Schiferli and Foreword by Ruth Padel

Poet Laureate of the Netherlands Ramsey Nasr tours six UK cities from 14th to 19th January 2013.


“With this collection Anglophone readers are introduced to a poet of global scope," writes renowned American poet Marilyn Hacker

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Selected Poems

Translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa

Shepherd of Solitude is the first English collection for Jordanian poet Amjad Nasser, translated and introduced by the foremost translator of contemporary Arabic poetry into English Khaled Mattawa, with the poems selected by poet and translator from the poet's Arabic volumes over the years 1979 to 2004.

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Selected Poems
translated from the Arabic by the author

Knife Sharpener is a posthumous commemoration and celebration of Sargon Boulus in this collection of poems, written between 1991 and 2007 that he translated himself, together with an essay, "Poetry and Memory", written a few months before he died.

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Here is the brilliantly observed clutter and comedy of everyday lives, the lives of ordinary people pushed up against an iron occupation and fighting for survival . . .

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From Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt and Syria. George, Kamal, Mayy, Abdullah, Nadia, William, all have to begin their lives again, learn how to deal with their memories, with their pasts . . .

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Poems and short stories by four young Arab authors celebrating their tour of the UK this August with Banipal Live, a partnership of Banipal magazine with the British Council and The Reading Agency.

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Short Stories from North Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia

Includes new works by authors well-known in the West – Tayeb Salih from Sudan, Mohamed Choukri from Morocco

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Enthralling and timely saga, set in a small Lebanese village, of a young family's attempt to thwart the onset of civil war

The new re-translated edition of Samuel Shimon's An Iraqi in Paris has been published by Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing.

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