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The Abduction by Maram al-Masri Southword Editions, 53 pages
Maram al-Masri is a Syrian poet living in France. Theo Dorgan has previously translated two of her collections into English: Barefoot Souls (ARC, 2015) and Liberty Walks Naked (Southword, 2017). Theo Dorgan’s most recent books are Orpheus, (Dedalus Press, 2018) and Bailéad Giofógacha, his translations into Irish of Lorca’s Romancero Gitano (Coiscéim, 2019). Grief is a kind of exile, and these are the poems of an exile, of a woman driven by cruelty into a world where her rights as a mother are negated—the right to give love, the right to receive love, the right to determine her life in accord with her own independent sense of what is proper and just. Her subjects here are grief and love, the truths and impossibilities of each and both. More particularly, the grief of a loving mother cruelly separated from her infant son, the need to find a language of love that may pass between them when he is restored to her embrace. Born in Syria, long-time exile in Paris, Maram al-Masri has built up a devoted international following for her poems. She writes with a clarity and directness that pierces to the heart of things, in poems that remorselessly trace the destruction of her homeland, that inquire with a cool intelligence into the condition of women in our time; here, with great poignancy, she explores and lays bare the tragedy when a child is torn from the embrace of his mother, the difficulties both must face when he is at last restored to her.
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An Fheadóg Fia le Jidi Majia Southword Editions, 118 leathanach
Tá Jidi Majia aitheanta mar dhuine de mhórfhilí a ghlúine sa tSín. Is file dúchasach de chuid an chine Nuosu ó cheantar sléibhtiúil iar-dheisceart na Síne é. Tá níos mó ná fiche cnuasach filíochta foilsithe aige, agus mórchuid duaiseanna buaite aige dá chuid saothair liteartha. Seasann guth Jidi Majia, lena neart agus samhlaíocht dhian, mar ghuth ionadaíoch d’éagsúlacht phobail eitneacha na Síne. Aistrithe go Gaeilge ag Simon Ó Faoláin, tarraingíonn a dhánta go láidir ar mhiotais, traidisiúin agus creideamh seamanach na Nuosu, chomh maith le dúlra naofa a gceantair dúchais. Tríd an bhfilíocht seo léirítear cultúr atá fréamhaithe go daingean i bhforaoiseacha, sléibhte agus ainmhithe an cheantair sin, is a aithníonn tionchar spioraid na sinsear a d’imigh roimhe mar ghné bhuan den saol laethúil. Ach anuas ar an méid sin, óna bhunús láidir áitiúil léiríonn an file seo dearcadh coinsiasach domhanda a dhíríonn ar chás na bpobal eitneach mionlach atá á mbascadh is á gcreimeadh faoi ualach na mórchultúr ar fud na cruinne.
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Liberty Walks Naked by Maram al-Masri Southword Editions, 60 pages (Hardback)
Maram al-Masri is from Lattakia in Syria, now settled in Paris. She studied English Literature at Damscus University before starting publishing her poetry in Arab magazines in the 1970s. Thus far her work has been translated into eight languages. Her poetry collections include Red Cherry on the White Floor and I look at you. Most recently, in English, she has published Barefoot Souls (Arc 2015) also translated by Theo Dorgan. Theo Dorgan was born in Cork and has published five books of poetry. His most recent collections are Greek (Dedalus 2012) and Nine Bright Shiners (Dedalus 2014). He has published two prose accounts of sailing journeys, Sailing for Home (Penguin) and Time on the Ocean (New Island 2013). He published Making Way, a novel, in 2013. He has translated a previous collection of Maram al-Masri's, Barefoot Souls (Arc 2015).
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A Boat to Heaven
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Selected Poems
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A Visit to the Clockmaker
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Moose Beetle Swallow
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Flying Blind
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Richesses: Francophone Songwriter Poets
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A Stay in a Sanatorium
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Songs of Earth and Light
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The Belling
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After the Raising of Lazarus
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Confidential Reports
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The Towers Turn Red
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Fourty Four
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