'A bullet / then a siren / then ruins / then a bird song telling the truth' - Dunya Mikhail
In her marvellous new poetry collection Tablets: Secrets of the Clay, Dunya Mikhail transforms the world's first symbols - Sumerian glyphs that were carved into clay tablets - into the matter of our everyday contemporary life. Each of the ten sections in her book is composed of twenty-four short poems, and each poem combines both text and drawing. In her note to the collection, Mikhail writes, 'I practiced at least two layers of translation in these tablets: the first from words in one language, Arabic, to another, English; and the second from words to images. What I received from my ancestors are offerings of the future rather than of the past. Now it's my turn to offer them to you.'
| ISBN: | 9781800174399 |
| Publication date: | 26th September 2024 |
| Author: | Dunya Mikhail |
| Publisher: | Carcanet Poetry an imprint of Carcanet Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 144 pages |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets |
'A bullet / then a siren / then ruins / then a bird song telling the truth' - Dunya Mikhail
In her marvellous new poetry collection Tablets: Secrets of the Clay, Dunya Mikhail transforms the world's first symbols - Sumerian glyphs that were carved into clay tablets - into the matter of our everyday contemporary life. Each of the ten sections in her book is composed of twenty-four short poems, and each poem combines both text and drawing. In her note to the collection, Mikhail writes, 'I practiced at least two layers of translation in these tablets: the first from words in one language, Arabic, to another, English; and the second from words to images. What I received from my ancestors are offerings of the future rather than of the past. Now it's my turn to offer them to you.'
Tablets features in the following genres: Poetry by individual poets
Tablets is available in Paperback
Tablets was written by Dunya Mikhail and published by Carcanet Poetry an imprint of Carcanet Press
Tablets has 144 pages
£11.69