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You Must Live

Name: You Must Live
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SKU: 9781837312504
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A profoundly 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... Read More

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A profoundly 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781837312504

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 June 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin

Contributors:

Edited by Jorie Graham
Translated by Tayseer Abu Odeh
Translated by Sherah Bloor

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 328g

Pages: 320

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About the Author

Jorie Graham (External Editor) 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.