{"product_id":"import-31f98963-2e52-4079-9433-7c31a3f695a2","title":"48kg","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems of loss and liberation, the body and the human spirit: the astonishing debut collection from Palestinian poet Batool Abu Akleen\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'In this book, I am collecting the parts of myself I have found, in case there isn't anyone there to do so if I am killed.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach of the forty-eight poems assembled in this startling bilingual collection represents a single kilogram of a body's mass. In spare, stark language, Abu Akleen writes of a city under siege and a self under constant assault, articulating the personal and the public in the midst of unspeakable violence. \u003ci\u003e48kg\u003c\/i\u003e immortalizes her voice and, in doing so, reaches out for a space of shared humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'One of the most viscerally affecting collections of poems I have ever read. Devastatingly precise and unforgettable images emerge from every line... What is happening in Gaza is a genocide not a war, but not since Akhmatova have I read poetry that so potently reckons with the relationship between war and the body. They create a new category of literary grace out of the cataclysm. These are poems of fire and agony, bombing and starvation, but they are also poems of grace, cleverness, tenderness and yearning. A great international poet arrives with this collection, but it is also a landmark work of resistance. No human should have to write their poetry from inside death's dominion, but Batool Abu Akleen has done it, and the result is truly astonishing.' -Max Porter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated from Arabic by the poet (with Graham Liddell, Wiam El-Tamami, Cristina Viti and Yasmin Zaher), edited by Dominic J. Jaeckle and Cristina Viti, and published in collaboration with Tenement Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 128 pages | Published September 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GARDNERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66049238368524,"sku":"9781837315185","price":13.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/3459\/8749\/files\/9781837315185.jpg?v=1793194517","url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/import-31f98963-2e52-4079-9433-7c31a3f695a2","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}