My Country's Hair Turned White by Dilawar Karadaghi, ed. and trans. by Jiyar Homer and trans. by Mike Baynham women poets ‘Utting animates life’s brittle edges

‘Utting animates life’s brittle edges and her poems carry unforced emotional weight

— Deanna Rodger

to Athens during the height of the Greek debt crisis and Kiev in the wake of the Maidan Revolution

She rides a beautiful orange wheelchair at obnoxiously high speed and lives with her husband

My Country's Hair Turned White by Dilawar Karadaghi, ed. and trans. by Jiyar Homer and trans. by Mike Baynham women poets ‘Utting animates life’s brittle edgesDilawar Karadaghi is one of the most important contemporary Kurdish poets and his work is marked by the long years of persecution, marginalization and struggle that are part of the Kurdish experience. The poems in this short selection are full of longing, sadness, loss and, in the final poem, anger, as the poet remembers the devastating chemical attack on Halabja in 1988 in which his countrys hair turned white.