From the River to the Sea Amir Or

From the River to the Sea Amir OrThis new collection by Palestinian poet Samer Abu Hawwash was published in its original Arabic in the summer of 2024. The 24 poems are an intrepid literary journey into the genocide in Gaza, linking with Palestines long years of existential trauma, and documenting the universal human questions that so many are asking in todays world. Living, as he has done since being born in Lebanon in 1972, in a diaspora crowded with fellow Palestinians, the poet

brought together for the first time

‘Hold on to your chapeaux

Set in a ‘present’ of 1956 when political change was coming to Trinidad

Fred D'Aguiar

perhaps this is the time for us to perceive the cosmic archetypes on which these tales rest

Film and the Working Class (1989

losing a parent

His debut collection is gritty and irreverent

elegiac but with unexpected leaps of the imagination

and the weird things parents do

He is a labourer

No novel penetrates more deeply the political corruption at the heart of 1980s Guyana