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- ISBN 9781837312504
- Weight: 328g
- Dimensions: 152 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 18 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A deeply moving poetry anthology exploring loss and survival by Palestinian writers living in Gaza and the West Bank
You Must Live brings together some of the most remarkable poets living and writing in Palestine today, from renowned international prize winners to talented emerging voices.
Composed over the past few years and gathered under desperate conditions, these poems, which appear in the original Arabic alongside English translations, are haunted by the long spectre of occupation, transforming laments for lost family, friends and places into a new vision of home. This is a poetry of witness and profound lyric imagination, attuned to the hidden beauty of the natural landscape, the music of sparrows under crowded skies, the electricity of complex desire, daring to conceive a dazzling future beyond dispossession and military siege.
You Must Live is the latest entry into the rich tradition of Palestinian poetry, negotiating the interplay between aesthetics and politics, the individual and the collective, to provide a glimpse into the full interiority of Palestinian life.
'A light beam of a collection in our dark hours...This is a landmark work, a center from which myriad new ways of thinking and being will flourish' Ocean Vuong, author of Night Sky With Exit Wounds
Jorie Graham has published 15 widely translated collections which have won many awards, including the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the 2012 Forward Prize, the Wallace Stevens Award and the International Nonino Prize.
Sherah Bloor (Translator)
Sherah Bloor is a South African poet and scholar. Her first poetry collection, The Gathering, will be published by Omnidawn in September 2026.
Tayseer Abu Odeh (Translator)
Tayseer Abu Odeh is a Palestinian-Jordanian writer and translator. Among other outlets, his writing has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Arab Studies Quarterly, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, and Harvard Divinity School’s Peripheries.
