The fifteenth poem in our Palestine Advent series is Seeds in Flight, by Khaled Abdallah, translated by Sara Veghefian with the Poetry Translation Workshop.
Seeds in Flight, by Khaled Abdallah.
Khaled Abdallah was born in Deir el Balh in Gaza in 1970. He has published two collections of poems, FM, which won the 2001 AM Qattan Foundation poetry prize and Dar Al-Adaab (Beirut, 2002). Khaled has lived in Paris since 2001.
Sara Vaghefian was born in the UK of Irish/Iranian descent and is bilingual having been brought up speaking English and Arabic.
With thanks to Natalie Jabbar and Chris Rose for inspiring this idea.
Photo by Hammam Fuad on Unsplash
Published by Anthony Wilson
I am a poet and writing tutor. For 24 years I worked 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 final research project, funded by the Foyle Foundation, was Young Poets' Stories: https://youngpoetsstories.com/. This blog is archived by the British Library.
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