A Dress of Locusts by Safa Khatib Francis R. Jones Caroline Crew

Caroline Crew

And awe-inspiring artwork from: Annalise Barber

and is a Poetry Book Society Recommendtion

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Louis MacNeice

A Dress of Locusts by Safa Khatib Francis R. Jones Caroline CrewPublished 19th June 2025. An electrifying debut collection exploring langage and revolution, by an extraordinary new poetic talent Woven from threads of Aramaic, Spanish, Ancient Greek, Sumerian and Arabic, A Dress of Locusts is an unforgettable song cycle in which the living and dead sing back and forth to one another. Here, Safa Khatib participates in a poetic tradition Jerome Rothenberg once called the "Revolution of the Word', journeying across