Description
Although Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf has lived in exile in the UK for 20 years, she is fast emerging as one of the most outstanding Somali poets, as well as a powerful woman poet in a literary tradition still largely dominated by men. She is a master of the major Somali poetic forms, including the prestigious gabay, by which she presents compelling arguments with astonishing feats of alliteration. The key to her international popularity is in her spirit and message: her poems are classical in construction but they are unmistakeably contemporary, and they engage passionately with the themes of war and displacement which have touched the lives of an entire generation of Somalis. The mesmerising poems in this landmark collection are brought to life in English by award-winning Bloodaxe poet Clare Pollard. Somali-English dual language edition co-published with the Poetry Translation Centre.
Animal Rhymes (Lift the Flap Book) 
101 Poems About Childhood 
New and Selected Poems. Volume One 
Poetry in the Making 
Immrama 
Being Alive 
Songs of innocence & of experience 
The 'White City' 
States of Happiness 
The Smeds and the Smoos 
Counting Backwards 
Luck Is the Hook 
Negative of a Group Photograph 
Insistence 
Of Sea 
Is This a Poem?: What makes a poem, and how YOU can write one 
Clare Beaton's Bedtime Rhymes 
Time Is a Mother 
Words the Turtle Taught Me 
The Moon Before Morning 
Disturbance 
Gravity 
Ten Bedtime Poems (Volume One) (Selected and Introduced by William Boyd) 
Strong in the Rain 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
Noctuary 
Japanese Haiku Poems 
The Nobel Lecture 
Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods