Poems

(24 poems total listed).

Iron Horses

By: Amjad Nasser

English version by Fady Joudah

Anger Arabic

Easter Sunday, Rajab in Mid-Moon

By: Khaled Mattawa

English The Poet

Letter To Goethe

By: Adonis

English version by Khaled Mattawa

Arabic The Poet

Eleven Maxims from the Book of Ill-Humour

By: Don Paterson

English Ill-Humour

Electrocardiogram

By: Fatemeh Shams

English version by Dick Davis

Persian Wisdom

Aubade

By: Mohammed Bennis

English version by Sinéad Morrissey

Arabic The Cup-Bearer

Paradise on Earth

By: Fadhil al-Azzawi

English version by Jorie Graham

Arabic Paradise

Ephesus Ghazal

By: Jan Wagner

English version by Robin Robertson

German Paradise

Knowingly Willingly

By: Gonca Özmen

English version by Jo Shapcott

Parables Turkish

Mind the Gap

By: Gilles Ortlieb

English version by Sean O’Brien

French Wisdom