Nothing More to Lose is the first collection of poems by Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish to appear in English. Hailed across the Arab world and beyond, Darwish’s poetry walks the razor’s edge between despair and resistance, between dark humor and harsh political realities. With incisive imagery and passionate lyricism, Darwish confronts themes of equality and justice while offering a radical, more inclusive, rewriting of what it means to be both Arab and Palestinian living in Jerusalem, his birthplace.

Nothing More to Lose (NYRB Poets)

Literature & Fiction

Darwish, Najwan

Genre Fiction

NYRB Poets

Writers from Alice Walker to Michael Ondaatje to Claire Messud share their thoughts on one of the most vital gatherings of writers and readers in the world.
The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008 by authors Ahdaf Soueif, Brigid Keenan, Victoria Brittain and Omar Robert Hamilton. Bringing writers to Palestine from all corners of the globe, it aimed to break the cultural siege imposed by the Israeli military occupation, to strengthen artistic links with the rest of the world, and to reaffirm, in the words of Edward Said, "the power of culture over the culture of power."
 Celebrating the tenth anniversary of PalFest, This Is Not a Border is a collection of essays, poems, and sketches from some of the world's most distinguished artists, responding to their experiences at this unique festival. Both heartbreaking and hopeful, their gathered work is a testament to the power of literature to promote solidarity and hope in the most desperate of situations.
 Contributing authors include J. M. Coetzee, China Miéville, Alice Walker, Geoff Dyer, Claire Messud, Henning Mankell, Michael Ondaatje, Kamila Shamsie, Michael Palin, Deborah Moggach, Mohammed Hanif, Gillian Slovo, Adam Foulds, Susan Abulhawa, Ahdaf Soueif, Jeremy Harding, Brigid Keenan, Rachel Holmes, Suad Amiry, Gary Younge, Jamal Mahjoub, Molly Crabapple, Najwan Darwish, Nathalie Handal, Omar Robert Hamilton, Pankaj Mishra, Raja Shehadeh, Selma Dabbagh, William Sutcliffe, Atef Abu Saif, Yasmin El-Rifae, Sabrina Mahfouz, Alaa Abd El Fattah, Mercedes Kemp, Ru Freeman.

This Is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature

Biographies & Memoirs

Holmes, Rachel

SHAMSIE, Kamila

DYER, Geoff

Achebe, Chinua

Crabapple, Molly

Brittain, Victoria

SPALDING, Linda

Mishra, Pankaj

PALIN, Michael

Darwish, Mahmoud

Ondaatje, Michael

Hanif, Mohammed

Horner, John

Hammad, Suheir

Foulds, Adam

Mahfouz, Sabrina

Karmi, Ghada

SLOVO, Gillian

COLE, Teju

Abulhawa, Susan

Pavlić, Ed

Kanazi, Remi

Freeman, Ru

Kricorian, Nancy

Mahjoub, Jamal

Handal, Nathalie

Harding, Jeremy

Saif, Atef Abu

Kemp, Mercedes

El-Rifae, Yasmin

Keenan, Bridget

Dabbagh, Selma

Bseiso, Jehan

El-Khairy, Omar

Musleh, Maath

Muiz

COETZEE,J.M.

Shehadeh, Raja.

Sutcliffe, William

Amiry, Suad.

WALKER,Alice

MANKELL, HENNING

MOGGACH, Deborah

Mieville,China

MESSUD, Claire

Historical

Bloomsbury USA

A much-anticipated follow-up to Nothing More to Lose, this is only the second poetry collection translated into English from a vital voice of Arabic literature. "We drag histories behind us," the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish writes in Exhausted on the Cross, "here / where there's neither land / nor sky." In pared-down lines, brilliantly translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid, Darwish records what Raúl Zurita describes as "something immemorial, almost unspeakable"--a poetry driven by a "moral imperative" to be a "colossal record of violence and, at the same time, the no less colossal record of compassion." Darwish's poems cross histories, cultures, and geographies, taking us from the grime of modern-day Shatila and the opulence of medieval Baghdad to the gardens of Samarkand and the open-air prison of present-day Gaza. We join the Persian poet Hafez in the conquered city of Shiraz and converse with the Prophet Mohammad in Medina. Poem after poem evokes the humor in the face of despair, the hope in the face of nightmare.

Exhausted on the Cross (Nyrb Poets)

Exhausto en la cruz

Poetry

Vaso Roto Ediciones

Nada más que perder

VALPARAÍSO EDICIONES

This pocket-sized paperback is one of the twenty-two titles published for 2015 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2015 is "Poetry and Conflict". 21 international poets from 18 different places are invited to participate in recitations, symposia and sharing sessions of the Poetry Nights. A recitation focusing on 10 local Hong Kong poets, "Hong Kong Cantonese Poetry Night" is included. This collection seeks to make accessible the best of contemporary international poetry with outstanding translations.

Sleeping in Gaza (International Poets in Hong Kong)

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

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