The Abduction by Maram al-Masri, trans. by Theo Dorgan
PBS Winter Translation Choice 2020 Josephine Corcoran brings his unique tragedian’s eye

brings his unique tragedian’s eye to bear on both the city’s and our society’s efforts to right itself

Relocated from medieval Italy to modern-day New Zealand

lines of contact and connection that conventional place-making keeps from view

the first of which was taken on the day when he was born

Dandy Bogan brings one of New Zealand's most distinctive poets to the rest of the world for the first time

The Abduction by Maram al-Masri, trans. by Theo Dorgan <br><b>PBS Winter Translation Choice 2020</b> Josephine Corcoran brings his unique tragedian’s eyeGrief is a kind of exile, and these are the poems of an exile, of a woman driven by cruelty into a world where her rights as a mother are negated the right to give love, the right to receive love, the right to determine her life in accord with her own independent sense of what is proper and just. Her subjects here are grief and love, the truths and impossibilities of each and both. More particularly, the grief of a loving mother cruelly separated from