Ghassan Zaqtan is the author of numerous collections of poetry, a novel, and a play, The Narrow Sea, which was honored at the 1994 Cairo Festival. His verse collection Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me, translated by Fady Joudah, was awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2013, and he was nominated for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in both 2014 and 2016. Robin Moger is a translator of Arabic prose and poetry based in Cape Town, South Africa.

"Navigating alienation, Zaqtan’s poems vividly capture the pain and angst experienced by Palestinians as well as their 'frail hopes and glorious defeats.' Listening to stories of survival and return, the poet is often left alone to document the transformation of spaces and memories."

• I Do Not Know the Way to AleppoThe Road to the LakesSpeak Stranger, SpeakWhen We Lost the WarGoing To Listen to My Father’s MiraclesDo Not Call to Me with Your Wide Eyes

Ghassan Zaqtan is the author of numerous collections of poetry, a novel, and a play, The Narrow Sea, which was honored at the 1994 Cairo Festival. His verse collection Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me, translated by Fady Joudah, was awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2013, and he was nominated for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in both 2014 and 2016. Robin Moger is a translator of Arabic prose and poetry based in Cape Town, South Africa.

"Navigating alienation, Zaqtan’s poems vividly capture the pain and angst experienced by Palestinians as well as their 'frail hopes and glorious defeats.' Listening to stories of survival and return, the poet is often left alone to document the transformation of spaces and memories."

• I Do Not Know the Way to AleppoThe Road to the LakesSpeak Stranger, SpeakWhen We Lost the WarGoing To Listen to My Father’s MiraclesDo Not Call to Me with Your Wide Eyes