Contemplating the abyss beneath me
By Charlotte Stace
The CCCB hosts a talk with the poet Mosab Abu Toha, one of his generation’s leading exponents of Palestinian literature, and writer Fatima Bhutto about life in Gaza and the role of poets in times of injustice and violence.
Mosab’s life has been continuously marked by the violence of the war and occupation in Palestine. He has used poetry as a way to express his feelings since he was young. From warm memories of his family and home, the sea of Gaza and sweet smell of orange trees, to the horror of explosions and sleepless nights waiting for missiles to fit, his poetry leaves no stone unturned.
Author of Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear (2022) and Forest of Noise (2024), he will speak with the Pakistani writer Fatima Bhutto about the sense poetry can have, even amidst horror.