Description
Each day after school, Mohammed El-Kurd’s grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa-she was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian resilience.
With razor-sharp wit and glistening moral clarity, El-Kurd lays bare the brutality of Israeli settler colonialism. His poems trace Rifqa’s exile from Haifa to his family’s current dispossession in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, exposing the cyclical and relentless horror of the Nakba.
El-Kurd’s debut collection definitively shows that the Palestinian struggle is a revolution, until victory.
A Quarter of an Hour 
The First Poems in English (Penguin Classics) 
Gold from the Stone 
Selected Poetry 
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 
Counting Backwards 
The New Pornography 
Clueless Dogs 
The Tamarit Poems 
New and Selected Poems. Volume One 
Jazz Poems 
Red Devon 
The 'White City' 
How to Be a Poet 
Silly Rhymes and Limericks 
My Name Is Why 
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
Strong in the Rain 
This Is Yarrow 
Playing House 
Poems & Fragments