The third poem in our Palestine Advent series is by Natalie Handal.
Others Are Us, by Natalie Handal.
Nathalie Handal is a French-American poet, playwright, translator, and editor, originally of a Palestinian family from Bethlehem. She is the author of the poetry collections The Neverfield (1999), The Lives of Rain (2005); Love and Strange Horses (2010), Poet in Andalucía (2012), and Life in a Country Album (2019).
With thanks to Natalie Jabbar and Chris Rose for inspiring this series of blog posts.
Published by Anthony Wilson
I am a lecturer, poet and writing tutor. I work in teacher and medical education at the University of Exeter. My anthology Lifesaving Poems was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2015. In 2012 I published Riddance (Worple Press), a collection of poems, and Love for Now (Impress Books), a memoir, about my experience of cancer. The Wind and the Rain, my sixth collection of poems, was published in 2023 by Blue Diode Press. Plymbridge, a new pamphlet, is available now from Worple Press. My current research project, funded by the Foyle Foundation, is Young Poets' Stories: https://youngpoetsstories.com/. This blog is archived by the British Library.
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Lifesaving Poems 
Beautiful…!
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Thank you!
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Hi Anthony
Great see you on Saturday and these have been brilliant so far.
Very best
Chris
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Thank you so much, Chris. It was great to see you too. Safe travels as you venture out. Keep on keeping on x Anthony
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