Kingdom of GravityIn direct narrative terms the poems in this collection relate to the horrors of the civil war that ousted the brutal tyranny of Idi Amin in Uganda, a war of liberation that brought its own barbarous atrocities. In political terms the poems chart the impact of imperialism and neo colonialism that lay behind those traumas in the life of the nation. In personal terms, the poems are framed between the contrary pulls of attachment and flight, exile and

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Here he continued to write poetry and explored his marriage in a book which would eventually be published in 1980

and whose origins are in Morocco

While Boccaccio does not go so far as directly to question the social or religious fabric of medieval society

As in his previous collection

Salman Masalha: Poems

and a brilliant

Women lose their faces but find their voices as “We dive into / the language sea”

but he has tuberculosis

Peter Clark on Arab writers who write in English

"Canavan understands the power of the lyric

and has received awards and commendations from Aesthetica