The Tent Generations : Palestinian Poems

The Tent Generations : Palestinian PoemsFrom the Introduction by Mohammed Sawaie: The Palestinian poets included in The Tent Generations, Palestinian Poems represent different age groups and backgrounds, yet they all express a strong sense of Palestinian ness. They include Israeli citizens, the offspring of those who remained in Palestine after 1948. They also include poets who lived or continue to live in the West Bank and Gaza, areas that are still occupied, or controlled by Israelis as

her brother Mick and his friend Con Brosnan

Khalidi reveals nascent Palestinian nationalism and the broad recognition by the early Zionists of the colonial nature of their project

even for her

But the de Winters still have to reckon with two hate-consumed figures they once knew - both of whom have very long memories

James Joyce on a young woman torn between the familiar burdens and oppression of her home and the dangerous lure of romance and escape

her writing pared down to its most naked and vulnerable

and landscapes are grained into our words

Nidhi Zak/AriaEipe

Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper - and cousin by marriage - of a once famous novelist

making the unbearable bearable

war and religion

And what is the Baroque anyway