Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd Sarah Wardle ’ I find the terrains

’ I find the terrains of his thinking and feeling breathtaking

’ – Clare Pollard

Mama Amazonica is Pascale Petit's seventh collection

'Flaming out of the specificity and music of place

Shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award 2014

Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd Sarah Wardle ’ I find the terrainsEach day after school, Mohammed El Kurd's grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa she was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian resilience. With razor sharp wit and glistening moral clarity, El Kurd lays bare the brutality of Israeli settler colonialism. His poems trace Rifqa's exile from Haifa to his family's current dispossession in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, exposing the cyclical