I Have Brought You a Severed Hand: Poetry from Ghayath Almadhoun

We are thrilled to welcome Syrian-Palestinian poet Ghayath Almadhoun to the bookshop to launch his latest collection of poems!

Fluid and unselfconscious, Almadhoun writes love poems in the shape of nightmares: I have brought you a severed hand is a surreal mix of absurd humour, lust and dead seriousness.

Caught between two exiles, the one inherited from his Palestinian father and the one he chose and lives, Almadhoun attempts to explain water and tame hope.