The Art of Scratching

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Shazea Quraishi

First book-length collection by Pakistan-born, London-based poet featured in Bloodaxe’s Ten: new poets from Spread the Word anthology in 2010.

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Taking inspiration from sources including historical and medical texts, curator’s notes and the Complete Kama Sutra, Shazea Quraishi’s poems explore love and loss through a range of voices: an Iraqi mother holds her fragile son; under the guise of ardour, a courtesan searches a client for signs of the woman she loves; a wife is unsettled by her husband’s new family – The Art of Scratching is her first book-length collection, and includes The Courtesans Reply, a sequence written in response to the Caturbhani, four plays written around 300 BC on the life of courtesans in India.

Additional information

Weight 73 g
Dimensions 21.6 × 13.8 × 0.6 cm
Author

Publisher

Bloodaxe Books

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

72

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

821.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K