Strangers in Light Coats: Poetry of time, memory, and exile ...Kuwait

Ghassan Zaqtan’s poetry is synonymous with memory — and in his latest book, worlds collide and unfurl, then come back together bound by the presence of loss. Strangers in Light Coats (Seagull Books, 2023) presents a selection of Ghassan's poetry in English, written between 2014 and 2020 from four different collections.  The book is sectioned into six parts, but the themes Ghassan invokes flow from one section to another, with loss becoming more powerful with each poem. As loss grows, so does memory. Memory is bound by time, and it also transcends. For Palestinians, memory also exists within the confines of colonisation, which creates another dimension of time before w

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