Feminist, radical and internationalist, the poets in Love and War draw on oral tradition and on song to articulate and celebrate the lives of Kurdish women as daughters, mothers and fighters.
A selection in English of poems by forty-five contemporary Kurdish women writers, including Bejan Matur, Avin Shakaki, Fadwa Kilani and Sînîn Çaycî.
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Feminist, radical and internationalist, the poets in Love and War draw on oral tradition and on song to articulate and celebrate the lives of Kurdish women as daughters, mothers and fighters.
A selection in English of poems by forty-five contemporary Kurdish women writers, including Bejan Matur, Avin Shakaki, Fadwa Kilani and Sînîn Çaycî.
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A selection, in English, of the work of forty-five contemporary Kurdish women poets, including Bejan Matur, Sara Aktas, Fadwa Kilani and Sînîn Çaycî.
About the Author
Maram al-Masri is a Syrian poet, based in Paris. Her collectionsinclude I alerted you with a white dove, A red cherry on a white-tiledfloor and Freedom, she comes naked. Her works have been translatedinto Spanish, French, Italian, Catalan, German and Corsican. Shehas been awarded the Adonis Prize, the Premio Citta di Calopezzati,the Prix d’Automne and the Dante Alighieri Prize.Alan Dent is a writer, critic and translator. The editor of MistressQuickly’s Bed, he has published five books of poetry, several novelsand a book of critical essays. His translations include Attempts onDeath by Chawki Abdelamir, and three books by Francis Combes –Common Cause, If the Symptoms Persist and Poets and the AlgerianWar – all published by Smokestack.
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