A Dress of Locusts

'Safa Khatibs poems open my eyes, sharpen my ears' SAFIA ELHILLO An electrifying debut collection exploring language and revolution, by an extraordinary new poetic talent Woven from threads of Aramaic, Spanish, Ancient Greek, Sumerian and Arabic, A Dress of Locusts is an unforgettable song cycle in which the living and dead sing back and forth to one another. Here, Safa Khatib journeys across the possibilities of language and self, asking us to dwell in the thresholds between the 'old' and the 'new'.