Remission by Abboud al Jabiri
Abboud al Jabiri fixes on a deceptively simple image and, when elaborating on it, manages to convey complex and delicates feelings about loss and acceptance.
An Iraqi poet and translator, Abboud al Jabiri, was born in Najaf in 1963. A\xa0member of the Iraqi\xa0Writers' Union and the Arab Writers' Union, he was one of the founders of the Iraqi Youth Literature forum. His two poetry collections are\xa0Index of Faults\xa0(2007) and\xa0Lean on his Blindness\xa0(2009). Since 1993, he has lived and worked in Amman, in Jordan.\xa0
This is part of our new\xa0rebranded weekly release: the Dual Poetry Podcast, one poem in two languages from the Poetry Translation Centre. As ever we will be releasing a translated poem each week.
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