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Posted: Wednesday Aug 23, 2023

Commenting on Faruk Šehić's 'My Rivers' are both David Howard and Kapka Kassabova!

“My Rivers is fed from the headwater of the Bosnian war by memories that mix and dissolve in the estuary of our present. Sometimes Faruk Šehić's swirling words are expansive and deep; at other times his language narrows, silted by mourning, but such wetlands are generative. This poetry is fresh water that carries vital salts and nutrients to us.” David Howard

“Through his exploration of war and peace, innocence and grief, Šehić has composed a humbling meditation on an existential conundrum that is central to collective and private trauma, but also to more ordinary human experience: how to keep the inner self whole in a world that will assault it in unimaginable ways.” Kapka Kassabova, The Guardian