Tent GenerationsThe Tent Generations, Palestinian Poems gathers together works by a select number of Palestinian poets, over the past seven decades, that give expression to the Palestinian experience under Israeli military rule and Israeli occupation, as well as the experience of dispersion and displacement from their homeland following the Nakba of the 1948 Arab Israeli War, and the subsequent wars of 1967 and 1973. These poems illuminate Palestinian responses to

’ Francis Combes believes that poets should now say

Jalil al-Qaisi – A Short Story Zulaikha

brain tissue turning to glass

They mark without question the appearance of a major talent

In doing so

who strikes up a rapport with a depressed old man who used to be a writer

My Father’s Dreams: A Tale of Innocence Abused

Federica ominously disappears

It explores a wide variety of viewpoints – translated poems

that it's a voice for everyone' Benjamin H

‘It is a talisman of a book

all of whom have a wide readership in their own countries but whose work continues to be largely absent from UK bookshops and is thus little known to the majority of English-language poetry readers