I Will Not Fold These MapsMona Kareem is a stateless poet, born in Kuwait, whose work has been internationally acclaimed for its power and immediacy ever since she published her first collection at the age of 14. This World Poet Series book, translated into English by the poet and translator Sara Elkamel, brings together poems from Kareems three collections as well as new, unpublished pieces. It centres on themes that recur frequently in Kareems poetry exile, estrangement,

will they find paradise behind the glass

Simon Cutts

Scammer is what we’ve been asking for in our sleep

Born and raised in Chicago

though not all

Stephen Watts reviews poetry in translation

these poems explore the impact of choice upon our lives and concentrate their magnificent

Tigress is wildly inventive

martial arts and greyhounds

selected by Carlo Levi from over four hundred poems in his possession

displacement and trauma through clear-voiced

the world was less accessible than now