Rock Flight by Hasib Hourani
Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Recommendation Chen Chen he sees this famine-boy grown

he sees this famine-boy grown up and questions him

slicing bread

Wear and Tees of the title (from Vin Garbutt’s song ‘John North’)

Κaterina Iliopoulou

the thing seen in fullness rather than the seer

Rock Flight by Hasib Hourani<br><b>Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Recommendation</b> Chen Chen he sees this famine-boy grownrock flight is a book length poem that follows a personal and historical narrative to compose an understated yet powerful allegory of Palestines occupation. The poem uses refrains of suffocation, rubble, and migratory bird patterns to address the realities of forced displacement, economic restrictions and surveillance technology that Palestinians face both within and outside Palestine. It depicts a restlessness brought about by dispossession, and a