Love and War: Contemporary Kurdish Women Poets Becky Charriman all the thrilling complexity of

all the thrilling complexity of love and grief that the body must bear

They are closely and thrillingly observed from real encounters

The Forward Prizes celebrate the best new poetry across 4 categories: Best First Collection

‘The mood is both tender and desperate

Love and War: Contemporary Kurdish Women Poets Becky Charriman all the thrilling complexity ofA revolution incapable of liberating women is not a revolution, the Kurdish leader Abdullah calan has argued. Since calans abduction and imprisonment by the Turkish authorities in 1999, the liberation struggle of the Kurds the most populous nation in the world without a state of their own has increasingly been led by women. Love and War brings together in English the work of fortyfive contemporary Kurdish women poets, including Bejan Matur, Sara