ALMOND BLOSSOMS AND BEYOND (INTERLINK) (PB)

Almond Blossoms and Beyond is one of the last collections of poetry that Mahmoud Darwish left to the world. Composed of brief lyric poems it distils his late style in which, though the spectre of death looms and weddings turn to funerals, he threads the pulses and fragilities and beauties of life into the lines of his poems. Their liveliness is his own response to the collection's final call to bid 'Farewell / Farewell, to the poetry of pain.'