Dear Big Gods (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781786942159)

Following on from her Forward prize-winning collection, Small Hands, Mona Arshi's new book continues in its lyrical and exact exploration of the aftershocks of grief. These extraordinary poems, which see Arshi continuing with her experiments with form, relocate experiences in both past and future feeling, in both the intimacies of ordinariness and the collective experience of myth. Moving and discomfiting, these poems tune, in their acute emotional awareness of individual pain, to the dangers and unsettling violences of the contemporary world. Nevertheless, at the centre of this book is an overarching commitment to hope, in whatever form it takes, to the earth's tiny creatures, and its 'churning, broken song'.


Author: Mona Arshi
ISBN-10: 1786942151
ISBN-13: 9781786942159
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2019
Pages: 64
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.20h x 4.40w x 0.30d

About the Author

Mona Arshi trained as a lawyer and worked for Liberty, the UK human rights organisation, for several years. She began writing poetry in 2008 and received a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. She has been a prize-winner in the Magma, Troubadour and Manchester Creative Writing Competitions. Mona's debut collection 'Small Hands' won the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection at the Forward Prizes for Poetry in 2015.