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Released 31st August, 2024 // 106 pages // 978-1-916938-43-4 // RRP £12.99

 

Abdul Kader El-Janabi's All these Fires, and Night Still Dark is a powerful collection of poetry which delves into themes of desolation, fleeting beauty, and intense emotion. El-Janabi's sharp, surrealist style transforms ordinary moments into profound reflections, challenging readers to see beyond the surface. Each poem is a moment of clarity amid chaos, offering a unique glimpse into the poet's rich, cross-cultural experiences. All these Fires, and Night Still Dark is a symphony of blasphemy, nobility, and rage, each poem a transient bloom, breaking through the comprehension of the world and inviting readers into a realm where all senses are heightened and reason is on its knees.

 

ABOUT Abdul Kader El-Janabi:

Iraqian-born, Parisian-based, Abdul Kader El-Janabi set off, at the beginning of 1970, for London and after two and a half years, left to Paris where he settled up today as a French citizen.

 

He founded in Paris, in 1973, Le Désir Libertaire, the first surrealist Arabic review, banned in the Arab world for its critical approach to social and religious issues. 

 

Author of many collections of poetry and essays, a translator into Arabic of many American and European poets such as Paul Celan, Blaize Cendrars, Miroslav Holub, René Daumal, Joyce Mansour, William Carlos Williams and recently an international anthology of prose poem, Abdul Kader El- Janabi has also published into French many anthologies of modern Arabic poetry. Most of his surrealist poems are included in his A Horseback Afternoon (Broken Sleep Books, 2022).

 

In his The education of El-Janabi (Journa inactuel de l’oubli, L’Asymetrie 2024), he retraces his route to the frontier of different cultures. He now runs La Revue de la poésie in toto, a magazine dedicated to radical poetry.

Abdul Kader El-Janabi - All these Fires, and Night Still Dark

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