Description
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.
What Is Poetry? 
Nine New Poems 
100 Poems 
This Changes Things 
Eliza's Babes 
Cross-Talk 
Blue Horses 
Felicity 
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith 
Silly Rhymes and Limericks 
The Christmas Truce 
On the Motion and Immobility of Douve