Blade of Grass: New Palestinian PoetryAgainst barbarity, wrote the celebrated Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (1942 2008), poetry can resist only by cultivating an attachment to human fragility, like a blade of grass growing on a wall as armies march by. A Blade of Grass brings together, in English and in Arabic, new work by poets from the Occupied West Bank and Gaza, from the Palestinian diaspora and from within the disputed borders of Israel. Including poems by Maya Abu Alhayyat,

her poetry and prose together produced an aphoristic and incomparably quotable style

A concise wit

Angus MacGrath

"This is language raised

and perhaps for this reason

translated by Padraig Rooney

and vice versa

split into fifteen sections dealing with Others identified only by their forename

pinning ideas down but at the same time giving them time to breathe"

Waleed Khazendar: Poems

and organised in co-operation with the poet’s sister

Rhodri Davies is an award-winning broadcaster and journalist