An absolutely stunning and shattering collection of poems from a Palestinian poet. Thankful to City Light Books for offering the ebook for free to everyone in order to get more eyes on Palestinian works. While reading this and Kanazi's collection, I was struck by how so many people still seem to believe that the violence inflicted on Palestine by Israel only began on 7th October after the devastating attacks by Hamas. If you took two seconds to read the work Palestinians have been putting out since 1948, you'd realise how untrue and harmful this is. Palestinians have been living under Israeli occupation since 1948, subject to atrocious violence and knowing barely any peace.

Palestine A-Z was far and away my favourite poem from the collection. Heartbreaking and innovative. Another stanza from Death Before Birth stayed with me: 

'People die.
Others are born.
For us,
the fear of dying before living
haunts us while we are still
in our mother's wombs.'