ignitionpress launch: Fahad Al-Amoudi, Clementine E Burnley & Laboni Islam

Join Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre as we launch three fantastic new pamphlets by Fahad Al-Amoudi, Clementine E Burnley and Laboni Islam.

In When the Flies Come, Fahad Al-Amoudi blurs the lines between national and personal memory. These finely-crafted poems are rooted in the specificity of family and place, with the trappings of myth and fabulation.

Kinship, soil, belonging and displacement – the far-ranging poems in Clementine E Burnley’s Radical Pairings pulse to the heartbeats of personal and historical moments from the African diaspora and memory and place enmesh.

Laboni Islam’s collection, Trimming the Wick, relights the languages, stories, and histories that we inherit, especially from the women in our families. The pamphlet explores the entangled pasts of countries, delving into personal and collective human memories that are ‘deep and stratified’, whilst being equally attuned to the more-than-human natural world.

For more details about the poets and their pamphlets, please visit the ignitionpress website: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/research/units/hss/centres/poetry-centre/ignitionpress/pamphlets