Hanan Issa’s debut pamphlet skips across the fragile boundaries of history, culture, relationships, and language. ‘My Body Can House Two Hearts’ is a celebration of women’s redemptive interdependency and the rejection of patriarchal power. Mererid Hopwood says “This unique collection shows that Welsh, Arabic and English flow side by side and sometimes share the same…
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Hanan Issa on how she writes a poem
“Poetry is the ultimate language ‘glow up’ and it is where I go to try and make sense of the storm” Dragon-taming? I started writing about dragons. Not the friendly creatures that let you ride on their backs. I wrote them as wild monsters with blood-stained teeth and fiery tempers. They definitely ate…