What it's Like to Be Alive: Selected Poems Khalil Suwailih

What it's Like to Be Alive: Selected Poems Khalil SuwailihDeryn Rees Joness new book, What Its Like to Be Alive: Selected Poems, marks a mid career milestone in the life of this highly acclaimed writer. From the poems written in her teens and early twenties included in her exciting debut The Memory Tray to her most recent exploration of time and grief, we see the arc of development in her writing over twenty five years as she visits and revisits the concerns that are the mainstay of her writing: memory,

but when Mouse abandons her calling and leaves the home

He recently won the Yorkshire Prize in the Yorkshire Open Poetry Competition

Hence destiny must I embrace

translated by Allison Blecker

To whom it happens

those lights

History rewrites itself

across a screen

including the Daniel Owen Memorial Prize and nominations for the Welsh Book of the Year

bloody-minded and bloody brilliant people

seeking solace in the control of the classical metre and vision of the master poets who preceded him

Japan and has been published in various leading international journals