The twenty-third poem in our Palestine Advent series is Without Mercy, by Mourid Barghouti, translated by Radwa Ashour.
Without Mercy, by Mourid Barghouti, first published in 2009.
Mourid Barghouti was born on the 8 July 1944 in Deir Ghassana near Ramallah, Palestine. He died on 14 February 2021. He lived most of his life in exile. He was the author of several books of poems, including Midnight and Other Poems (Arc, 2008), translated by Radwa Ashour, and the classic autobiography I Saw Ramallah (Bloomsbury, 2004).
With thanks to Natalie Jabbar and Chris Rose for inspiring this idea.
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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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