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Examination Centre and On Holy Week
alongside great tenderness
brings the eloquent original Arabic epic to a new readership
possessing the singular ability to move from the maelstrom of feeling to the stilled moment with an assured
The poet never seeks sympathy but invites us to laugh
The Emma Press Anthology of Motherhood #Translated Examination Centre and On HolyThe poets write with searing honesty about the incredible strength and capacity for self sacrifice demanded by motherhood, writing as parents as well as in relation to their own parents. The darkest thoughts of exhausted mothers are sensitively portrayed, as poets expose the weight of responsibility behind the hallowed state of motherhood, and question the expectations society places on mothers. This book gives voice to universal but usually silenced
