Eating Thistles Youssef Ziedan

Eating Thistles Youssef ZiedanLike the donkey in the Aesop fable, the US Scottish writer Deborah Moffatt speaks a language sharp and barbed. She knows it is better to eat thistles than to survive in a nation born of vanity. And that those who close borders, soon turn against their own, maddened by power, powered by madness. Drawing on Scottish and Irish Gaelic poetry and other literary and folk traditions, Eating Thistles transplants, transforms and re imagines contemporary and

Deserved winner of multiple awards upon its Catalan and Spanish publication

Ralph Thompson’s landscapes and figure studies

“an entire continent of poems whispering and singing inside Arabic and calling on us to reacquaint ourselves with its topography

The mix of new and old

Stewart Brown is the editor of several major anthologies as well as critical studies of Derek Walcott

experiment and commitment

conjuring a vision of England’s history and our human crossings

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with a grant from The Culture Fund of Zimbabwe

but of depth and skill

invited to perform at the First International Poetry Festival in Moscow

regimes plotted against their citizenry and ordinary people resorted to crime and deceit in order to survive