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Yousif M. Qasmiyeh’s collection features in Irish Times Best Poetry Books 2021

We are proud to share that Writing the Camp, the poetry collection by Imagining Futures Research Fellow and Baddawi Camp Lab collaborator Yousif M Qasmiyeh, has been featured in the Irish Times’ “Best Poetry Books of 2021.”

The Times’ writes that Writing the Camp is a:

“vital sequence of poems… written out of the author’s experience of life in the Baddawi refugee camp in Lebanon. This is a remarkable collection, attending to philosophy, faith and the power of testimony.”  

The poetry collection has also been Highly Commended by The Forward Prizes.