In Her Feminine Sign by Dunya Mikhail
PBS Autumn Wild Card 2019 Angela Livingstone This selection of poems for

This selection of poems for children has been made by George Szirtes and makes a delightful gift – something to read at bedtime as the excitement of Christmas approaches

It brings together four full-length collections by these writers

‘Her voice is unusual

PBS Bulletin No 207

In Her Feminine Sign by Dunya Mikhail <br><b>PBS Autumn Wild Card 2019</b> Angela Livingstone This selection of poems forAt the heart of In Her Feminine Sign, Dunya Mikhails luminous new collection of poems, is the Arabic suffix taamarbuta, the tied circle a circle with two dots above it that indicates a feminine word, or sign. This tied circle transforms into the moon, a stone that binds friendship, birdsong over ruins, and a hymn to Nisaba, the goddess of writing. With a deceptive simplicity and disquieting humour reminiscent of Wisawa Szymborska, and a lyricism