If This is a Lament

Bejan Matur is the leading voice of a bold new women's poetry emerging from the Middle East. Her award-winning poems, which describe a delicate space between concrete realism and mystical reflection, engage with the struggles of the Kurdish People of Turkey - her community. This bilingual chapbook brings together poems fro throughout Mature's illustrious career. They are presented alongside electrifying new English versions by T. S. Eliot Prize-winning poet Jen Hadfield (Nigh No-Place, Byssus) in collaboration with leading Turkish translator Canan Marasligil.