The eleventh poem in our Palestine Advent series is by Khaled Juma.
Oh Rascal Children of Gaza, by Khaled Juma.
Oh Rascal Children of Gaza is more than ten years old. You can read more about it at the Words That Burn Substack here. Khaled Juma was born in a refugee camp in Gaza in 1965. He has published nine volumes of poetry.
With thanks to Natalie Jabbar and Chris Rose for inspiring this idea.
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, is available now from Blue Diode Publishing. 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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