Akin to Stone

Bejan Matur's enthralling visceral poems are among the most imaginatively potent being written anywhere in the world. She is one of the leading voices of a bold new women's poetry emerging from the Middle East. Her award-winning poems describe a delicate space between concrete realism and mystical reflection, engaging with the struggles of the Kurdish people of Turkey. This new volume of her work presents poems from all stages of her career, with of some of her most acclaimed poems alongside works translated into English for the first time, and includes an afterword by poet Malika Booker.