Lock-in Literature: ‘A Primitive Prayer for Uruk’
“Give her back her earrings, God / Return to her clay oven the fire / And the rain to her farms / And take away death which harvests her children.”
Ghareeb Iskander
‘The Responsibility of Translating Other Poets’
“One clear change since 2003 has been in the themes taken up by Iraqi poets and novelists and, indeed, by artists generally.”
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