We Are Here To Stay Av Tawfiq Zayyad

<p>Combining traditional Arabic verse-forms and free-verse, <i>We Are Here to Stay</i> some of his best-known poems about the Nakba, about life under military occupation, discrimination, imprisonment and land-seizures, as well as poems about family and love. Written with characteristic defiance, grace and wisdom.</p><p>This bilingual selection of poems by Tawfiq Zayyad will join Smokestack’s other poets from the Arab-speaking world – Amir Darwish (Syria), Chawki Abdelamir (Iraq), Anna Greki (Algeria) and Palestinian poets Ghassan Zaqtan, Reja-e Busailah and Farid Bitar, as well as Smokestack’s anthologies <i>Poets and the Algerian War</i> and <i>A Blade of Grass: New Palestinian Poetry.</i></p>