Why I Write Poetry Elias Khoury

Why I Write Poetry Elias KhouryWhat motivates poets in the 21st century? How do they find their voice? What themes and subject matters inspire them? How do they cope with set backs and deal with success? What keeps them writing? Why I Write Poetry is a dazzling display of honesty, intelligence and wit from twenty four contemporary poets, and includes practical writing exercises and prompts alongside in depth thematic explorations and approaches to the art of poetry. Each essay

Cheryl Follon

they discovered a house full of extraordinary characters

Comrade Hou Liangping

Harwicz moulds language

Zakariyya Tamir: Seven short stories

His trademark mix of intimacy and controversy

unsettling energy

and a Morrissey-sized measure of heartache

“ – Adam Marek

The world we say we live in is put under pressure here in poems that manage to be both icily detached and achingly human… This is poetry that is strong

Will she make a pact with devil like Robert Johnson or will she pursue her own desires searching for the divine

His translation of Gisli Sursson’s Saga and the Saga of the People of Eyri was published by Penguin Classics in 2003 (ISBN 9780140447729)