Sign up to our emails and be the first to know about new releases, special offers and more.
Become a Readings Member to make your shopping experience even easier. Sign in or sign up for free!
Hello Readings Member! Go to the member centre to view your orders, change your details, or view your lists, or sign out.
Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order
Khaled Mattawa
A critical study of Mahmoud Darwishs poetry throughout his career. Darwish (1941-2008), a Palestinian poet and author, was established as the national poet of Palestine and an important world literary…
Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order
The latest volume in the Poets on Poetry series collects 12 essays by the internationally acclaimed poet, translator, and critic Khaled Mattawa
Acclaimed poet Khaled Mattawa conjures a pointed, incantatory account of the refugee experience during Operation Mare Nostrum.
Khaled Mattawa’s poetry contains the complexity of a transnational identity (MacArthur Fellowship citation)
Fugitive Atlas is a sweeping, impassioned account of refugee crises, military occupations, and ecological degradation, an acute…
Available to order, ships in 5-9 daysAvailable to order
Mr Khaled Mattawa
His first book, was enthusiastically received. Mattawa received the prestigious Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University.
The third book by an Arab-American poet who explores the hybridization of cultures.
Adonis
Born in Syria in 1930, Adonis is one of the most celebrated poets of the Arabic-speaking world. His poems have earned international acclaim, and his influence on Arabic literature has…
A cri de c/ur or fully imagined poem on the myth and history of Jerusalem/Al-Quds from the author revered as the greatest living Arabic poet
Hatif Janabi,Khaled Mattawa
Janabi’s poems are passionate, jolting, apocolyptic, and painful. They deal with war, death, perception, and truth, drawing from his family life, his exile in Poland, violence in Iraq, and his…
A compilation of new and previously unpublished works that infuses energy into the area of Arab American writing. Through poetry, fiction, essays, and drama, both seasoned and upcoming writers confront…
Brings together the voices of both new and established Arab American writers in a compilation of creative nonfiction that reveals the stories of the Arab diaspora in styles that range…
Amjad Nasser
?Shepherd of Solitude is the first English collection for Jordanian poet Amjad Nasser, translated and introduced by the foremost translator of contemporary Arabic poetry into English Khaled Mattawa, with the…
Reveals the complex and varied experiences of Arab American life. This work includes stories that reveal the initial adjustments of immigrants, the challenges of forming relationships, the political nuances of…
Khaled Mattawa,Phillip Metres
When I first read Khaled Mattawa’s Tocqueville some years ago, it rewired my brain and pummeled my heart. A daring meditation on what it means to be a poet and…
Michael McKee Green,Khaled Mattawa
The book states plainly that both its speaker and the speaker’s mother have suffered near deadly head injuries. However, rather than let a taxonomy like family curse sit unquestioned, Green…
Maram Al Massri
Maram Al-Massri is an Arab love poet for the modern age. She breaks completely with traditional Arab love poetry to draw on everyday language as well as images and metaphors…
Maram al-Massri
First American publication of Syrian poet Maram al-Massri, presented in a bilingual Arabic-English edition.
Mr Fadhil Al-Azzawi
The first full collection of poetry in English from this major contemporary Iraqi poet.
