Sturge Town Annemarie Austin FEATURE ON MAHMOUD DARWISH

FEATURE ON MAHMOUD DARWISH

and global histories are told through the lens of one family

Virgula is invoked as a muse and a companion

this volume’s contributors as scholars

Paul McVeigh

Sturge Town Annemarie Austin FEATURE ON MAHMOUD DARWISHSturge Town is a stunning collection of poems that connects with the earliest days of Kwame Dawes work as a poet, from the roots of childhood in Ghana to the reflections of a man turned sixty who is witnessing his children occupying the space he once considered his own. It ranges from poems that make something special of the everyday, to poems of the most astonishing imaginative leaps. There are poems that speak most movingly of moments of acute self