October - Couverture souple

Turkmani, Nur

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1914221400 ISBN 13 : 9781914221408

Editeur : Hajar Press, 2026

Synopsis

Longlisted for the 2026 Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection.

October in Lebanon is heavy with memory. The euphoria of the 2019 revolution feels far away, its anniversaries marked by crisis, war and the genocide in Gaza.

Across multiple Octobers, Nur Turkmani meditates on rupture, transformation and the quiet undoing and remaking of relationships during collective catastrophe. Part archive, part love letter, her debut poetry collection holds the ordinary and the extraordinary in the same breath, spanning balconies and border towns, fig trees and songs for friends, autumn light and the instinct to flee.

Formally spare and emotionally saturated, October refuses both numbness and spectacle. These poems ask what it means to survive the world and still long for it; and how we hold what's disappearing, or changing too quickly to make sense of.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nur Turkmani is a writer from Beirut. Her work appears in Poetry, New England Review, Copper Nickel, The Rumpus and others. October is her debut poetry collection and was selected by Chen Chen as winner of the Purple Ink Press Poetry Contest.

Nur is at work on a short story collection and was awarded the Anthony Veasna So Scholarship for fiction from The Adroit Journal. She studied creative writing at the University of Oxford and politics at the London School of Economics and the American University of Beirut.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hajar Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1914221400
• ISBN 13: 9781914221408
• Reliure: Broché
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• Personne responsable: non disponible