To celebrate National Poetry Month, we’re excited to share a reading list of new poetry collections from our wonderful distributed client, Seagull Books.

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Seagull Books

Ever Since I Did Not Die by Ramy Al-Asheq
Translated by Isis Nusair, Edited by Levi Thompson
Through seventeen powerful testimonies, Syrian-Palestinian poet Ramy Al-Asheq’s Ever SInce I Did Not Die is a poignant autobiographical journey that vividly depicts what it means to live through war.

The Universe, All at Once by Salim Barakat
Translated by Huda J. Fakhreddine
A captivating collection showcasing the latest poems of the Kurdish-Syrian maestro of Arabic style.

Cahier by Friedericke Mayrocker
Translated by Donna Stonecipher
A collection of poetic stream-of-consciousness prose meditations by Friederike Mayröcker.

Light Everywhere by Cees Nooteboom
Translated by David Colmer
A collection of poems, selected by Nooteboom himself from more than a dozen Dutch books.

A Calligraphy of Days by Krzysztof Siwczyk
Translated by Piotr Florczyk and Alice-Catherine Carls
Verses that oscillate between the turmoil of post-communist Eastern Europe to understated reflections on grief and mortality.

The World Is Made Up Every Day by Alok Dhanwa
Translated by Saudamini Deo
A prominent Hindi poet’s compelling testament to the struggles and resilience of India’s marginalized communities.

Poems by K. G. Subramanyan
Word-pictures crafted by a master artist from everyday moments offer deep reflections on contemporary existence in this poem collection.

The Minotaur’s Daughter by Eva Luka
Translated by James Sutherland-Smith
Poems from a new Slovak voice reminiscent of Rilke and Sharon Olds.

And here we’d like to share a short excerpt from The Universe, All at Once by Salim Barakat.

Selections from “The Five Hundred Fragments”

1
Guess what I’m guessing.
This is the last lantern,
and its flame feeds
on the oil of madness.

2
Set beauty aside on the couch,
next to your hearts, the ones you put in bags and set aside on the couch.
This is the tugging of days by their hair.
This is the tugging of lightning by its hair.
This is the tugging of meanings by their intimate hairs.

3
Water warned me not to trust it,
but I hear the clamour of those who believe
in the dominion of waves over the shore,
the ones fascinated by the dominion of rock and sand over the shore,
the dominion of wet spirits over the shore.
I hear the clamour of those fascinated by water’s sublime humility
in the sanctuary of its nautical voice.

All of these Seagull titles are available from our website or from Bookshop. Happy National Poetry Month!