The Wrong Person to Ask / Marjorie Lotfi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lotfi, Marjorie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry, Modern--21st century.

Poetry, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (75 pages)

Place of Publication:

Hexham, England : Bloodaxe Books Ltd, [2023]

Summary:

Marjorie Lotfi’s award-winning debut collection is a book of two halves, each a meditation on the idea of home, both the places we start and end up in our lives.  Spanning a childhood in Iran dislocated by revolution, through years as a young woman in America, to her current home in Scotland, these poems ask what it means to come from somewhere else, what we carry with us when we leave, and how we land in a new place and finally come to rest.  Winner of the James Berry Poetry Prize 2021 Winner of the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection 2024 (Forward Prizes) Shortlisted for the  Forward Prize  for Best First Collection 2024 Poetry Book Society Special Commendation

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

I

Refuge

On seeing Iran in the news, I want to say

The Wrong Person to Ask

Two Grandmothers

Maman Bozorg

The gun in its holster

Riding the Line

The Game

Crossing the street for mother's cigarettes

Shut Out the Noise

Packing for America

Hope

To the Airport

Origin

The Last Thing

Alarm I

Alarm II

I Picture of Girl and Small Boy (Burij, Gaza, 2014)

II Picture of Boy, Looking Away (Gaza, 2015)

Gabriella's Dream

What You See in the Dark

Wishbone

Correction

Destruction of the Forty Martyrs Cathedral, Aleppo, Syria

Granddaughter, I entered your mother's house

Checkpoint, Matveyev Kurgan

Khanoom

The End of the Road

I [There's a moment every morning]

II [Each breath in this place]

III [Every blade against the cutting-board]

IV [She takes her boys back every summer]

V [Even in this lack of light, she sees]

VI [The boys carry her good looks]

VII [In her eightieth year, she sees her sisters]

II

Sea Gooseberry (Pleurobrachia)

Sunday on the Luing Sound

Number 9 Cullipool

Sunflower

Star of the Sea

Williamina Fleming

What Work Is

Omega Centauri

Drift

Say It's Nothing, Say It's Rust

Horizon

Out to Sea

When They Ask

The Trunk

After the Match

The first thing he doesn't forget

The Unfinished House

Storm Light

The Last Keeper

Citizen

Moving

And this is how it begins

O Love!

Edward Thomas on His Last Night with Helen

Keep

The Hebridean Crab Apple

Acknowledgements

Copyright.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781780376400

1780376405

OCLC:

1395184189