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Writing the Camp
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Yousif M. Qasmiyeh
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SHORTLISTED FOR 2022 ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE ONDAATJE PRIZE
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY SPRING 2021 RECOMMENDATION
ONE OF THE DAILY TELEGRAPH'S BEST POETRY BOOKS 2021
Yousif M Qasmiyeh's Writing The Camp is an exceptional, essential collection drawn from the poet's experience of the Baddawi refugee camp in Lebanon. The poetry moves beyond the observational into a philosophical meditation on the existential nature of place. Qasmiyeh asks "Where is time?", crossing footprints of Derrida, "To experience is to advance by navigating, to walk by traversing". Writing The Camp is a brave and beautiful work, one which will surely be of historical importance.
PRAISE FOR WRITING THE CAMP
“Yousif M. Qasmiyeh’s Writing the Camp is a book with which every reader needs to be in dialogue, carrying it in their heart or on their back as a perpetual interlocutor. Qasmiyeh’s vast and cohesive philosophy of being, time, encounter, and place answers and displaces more comfortably established thinkers. Grounded in the exact and intimate knowledge of the camp, these writings acknowledge and refuse to rest with…
- Anthony Vahni Capildeo
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born and educated in Baddawi refugee camp, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh is a poet and translator whose doctoral research at the University of Oxford examines containment and the archive in ‘refugee writing’. Time, the body, and ruination inform his poetry and prose, which have appeared in journals including Modern Poetry in Translation, Stand, Critical Quarterly, GeoHumanities, Cambridge Literary Review, PN Review, Poetry London and New England Review . Yousif is the Creative Encounters Editor of the Migration and Society…
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