Leaf of the Neem Tree

• Utgivningsdatum: 2021-06-24
• Mått: 129 x 198 x 11 mm
• Vikt: 140 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 128
• Förlag: Hajar Press
• ISBN: 9781914221019

• Poesi

Jamal Mehmood is a London-based poet, writer and filmmaker whose work has been featured by the BBC, Magma, Popula, Hikaayat and Media Diversified. He was shortlisted for the Outspoken Prize for Poetry in Film in 2019, won the national Poetry Rivals in 2016, and is an alumnus of the UniSlam post-emerging cohort of poets. His film Muriid was released in 2021 by the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the BBC as part of the New Creatives scheme.

‘What if writing drew a circle around us … whispered aloud, and said in our hearts, both at once—to clean the blood, yes. This is that, written in a vernacular for us as we sit in our cities, dreaming of burning palms.’ — Zarina Muhammad, The White Pube‘Rejuvenates the reading spirit … creates a deep and philosophical, almost ecstatic experience.’ — Islamic Literary Society‘Stirringly compassionate … somehow captures the sentiment of Urdu poetry in the context of British capitalism’s brutalising drudgery.’ — Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, author of Postcolonial Banter‘One of the best specimens of the emerging discipline of British Muslim poetry.’ — Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad, Dean of Cambridge Muslim College‘A beautiful, intimate collection … Mehmood writes with soft grace and an unfaltering belief in divine benevolence, allowing us to clean the blood and imagine a better world.’ — Hussein Kesvani, author of Follow Me, Akhi‘Willing to bear witness to the sacred in the everyday, Mehmood writes with unwavering humility of God, of grief, of grace.’ — Victoria Adukwei Bulley, author of Girl B‘In the homes so brilliantly illustrated in these poems, there is refuge, comfort and joy.’ — Gboyega Odubanjo, author of While I Yet Live

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