The One Who Swears You Can't Start OverThe One Who Swears You Can't Start Over is both an elegiac record of losses and a testimony to our collective human determination to begin again. Though the book is centered around family and losses (loss of a mother to Alzheimer's, loss of a child, loss of a friend to suicide), it also includes a number of coming of age poems; poems on poetry, including the deadpan funny 'Why I Lied My Way Through Childhood'; persona poems written in voices unique as

the computer and the deposed god

translated by Julian Farmer

"It's not often that a book of poetry makes me laugh out loud

I am so mixed up and happy

by Aziz Shihab

'The North begins inside'

He teaches creative writing at a university in Sheffield

Article by Mahmoud Darwish on Translating Poetry

remake the world

FEATURE ON CONTEMPORARY SYRIAN LITERATURE – Part 2

"Notes wears its nerves on the surface

A psychological thriller