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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 9 books in this booklist
£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780995767539 | ISBN 10: 099576753x
‘Against barbarity,’ wrote the celebrated Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (1942-2008), ‘poetry can resist only by cultivating an attachment to human fragility, like a blade of grass growing on a wall as armies march by.’  A Blade of Gras ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781611804430 | ISBN 10: 1611804434
The renowned Persian Sufi mystic Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi (1207–1273) is one of the most widely read poets in the world today. His compassionate insight into the nature of human existence, joyful humor, deep wisdom, and ecstatic songs of divine un ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780141984933 | ISBN 10: 0141984937
While half the world swept west, we trickled eastward, one by one, single-file, like fugitives. Next stop: Abu Dhabi, where my father had a job, Â and money, for the first time in years... Â Flitting from the mud-soaked floors of Venice ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781843915515 | ISBN 10: 1843915510
I looked at his thin, aged face / Each line represented a massacre / Each wrinkle, a dead son / Each groove, a year of occupation. Poems for Palestine was launched as a project aiming to collect together verse written by the people of Palestine, ... more
View book details£13.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780300198409 | ISBN 10: 030019840x
In this inspired translation of Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me, Ghassan Zaqtan's tenth and most recent poetry collection, along with selected earlier poems, Fady Joudah brings to English-language readers the best work by one of the most important an ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780061905834 | ISBN 10: 0061905836
The Big Red Book is a poetic masterpiece from Jalaluddin Rumi, the medieval Sufi mystic whom Time magazine calls “the most popular poet in America.” Readers continue to be awed and inspired by Rumi’s masterfully lyrical, deeply expressive poems, coll ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780863566349 | ISBN 10: 0863566340
Mahmoud Darwish is one of the most acclaimed contemporary poets in the Arab world, and is often cited as the poetic voice of the Palestinian people. During the summer of 2006, Darwish was in Ramallah. He recorded his observations and feelin ... more
View book details£15.00 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781852247881 | ISBN 10: 1852247886
Mahmoud Darwish was the poetic voice of the Palestinian people. One of the most acclaimed contemporary poets in the Arab world, he was also a prominent spokesman for human rights who has spent most of his life in exile. In his early work, the fe ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780140449532 | ISBN 10: 0140449531
'The lord of beauty enters the soul as a man walks into an orchard in Spring.' ... The thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, mystic, scholar and founder of the order of the Whirling Dervishes, Rumi was also a poet of transcendental power. His inspi ... more
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