Unsilenced: Poems for Palestine is a collection of poems that convey profound emotions and serious reflections on the ongoing situation in Gaza and Palestine since the Nakba. Contributors include voices internationally, each recognizing the urgency and necessity of addressing the inhumane actions perpetrated against Palestine.
Haunting verses by poets fluent in the language of death and genocide. Each poem ringsout as a piece of memory, a bridge and a dream. This elegy will stand as a testimonial, a witness, by brave voices exhausted by the deafening silence of a traumatized world.
Nnimmo Bassey
Author of I See the Invisible (poems) and Laureate of the Right Livelihood Award 2010
… the priceless value of an anthology of lyrics from yet another encircled, blitzed, strafed, and bombarded commune, ghetto, or kibbutz, is that it bears indelible witness to the unbreakable human spirit. That is what you will unfold in this collection. Poets—Jew and Arab, Muslim and Christian, Atheist and Surrealist—voice suffering, resilience, despair, and hope, speaking out of their fragile humanity to demand that vile atrocities cease.
George Elliott Clarke
Author of Canticles I-III, 6 vols, MMXVI-MMXXIII (2016-2023)
Unsilenced shows how poetry is written to trigger and provoke, to bear witness, to look at the sky and shout, over and over, as loudly as necessary against injustice.
Immanuel Mifsud
Associate Professor, University of Malta and winner of the European Union Prize for Literature (2011).