James E. Montgomery is Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall. His latest publications are In Deadly Embrace: Arabic Hunting Poems, Fate the Hunter: Early Arabic Hunting Poems, and Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice, with Michael Fishbein. In 2024 he was elected Fellow of the British Academy.Alice Oswald is the author of eight books of poetry, including Memorial and Falling Awake, and winner of the Costa Poetry Award and Griffin Poetry Prize. Elected as the University of Oxford Professor of Poetry in 2019, she lives in Bristol, United Kingdom.

Twenty-six muscular, animal-centered works . . . timeless poems of man and nature. (Esquire Middle East) The Workings of Fate, by Sakhr Al-Ghayy, translated by James Montgomery. This Arabic hunting poem is ideal for a grey day, recharging me with what Beckett calls 'the pitiless light of that which hope hides'. It's a list of animal deaths laid out like offerings before the death of a human. - Alice Oswald (The Guardian)

James E. Montgomery is Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall. His latest publications are In Deadly Embrace: Arabic Hunting Poems, Fate the Hunter: Early Arabic Hunting Poems, and Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice, with Michael Fishbein. In 2024 he was elected Fellow of the British Academy.Alice Oswald is the author of eight books of poetry, including Memorial and Falling Awake, and winner of the Costa Poetry Award and Griffin Poetry Prize. Elected as the University of Oxford Professor of Poetry in 2019, she lives in Bristol, United Kingdom.

Twenty-six muscular, animal-centered works . . . timeless poems of man and nature. (Esquire Middle East) The Workings of Fate, by Sakhr Al-Ghayy, translated by James Montgomery. This Arabic hunting poem is ideal for a grey day, recharging me with what Beckett calls 'the pitiless light of that which hope hides'. It's a list of animal deaths laid out like offerings before the death of a human. - Alice Oswald (The Guardian)

James E. Montgomery is Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall. His latest publications are In Deadly Embrace: Arabic Hunting Poems, Fate the Hunter: Early Arabic Hunting Poems, and Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice, with Michael Fishbein. In 2024 he was elected Fellow of the British Academy.Alice Oswald is the author of eight books of poetry, including Memorial and Falling Awake, and winner of the Costa Poetry Award and Griffin Poetry Prize. Elected as the University of Oxford Professor of Poetry in 2019, she lives in Bristol, United Kingdom.

Twenty-six muscular, animal-centered works . . . timeless poems of man and nature. (Esquire Middle East) The Workings of Fate, by Sakhr Al-Ghayy, translated by James Montgomery. This Arabic hunting poem is ideal for a grey day, recharging me with what Beckett calls 'the pitiless light of that which hope hides'. It's a list of animal deaths laid out like offerings before the death of a human. - Alice Oswald (The Guardian)