Dear Refugee

by Amir Darwish

Amir Darwish came to the UK as an asylum seeker during the Second Gulf War, hanging underneath a truck on a ferry crossing the English Channel. In his second full-length collection, he seeks to rescue refugees from the popular media image as perpetrators or victims; reflecting on the trauma, suffering and pain of the worlds 22 million refugees, what they have left behind, what they have lost, and where they have arrived. Here is a book about emigration and immigration, departures and arrivals, longing and belonging, love, loss and exile.

64 pages, Paperback

Published February 1, 2019

About the author

Amir Darwish is a British/Syrian poet of Kurdish origin. He was born in Aleppo in 1979 and came to the UK as an asylum seeker during the Second Gulf War. His poetry has been published in the USA, Pakistan, Finland, Morocco and Mexico and in the anthology Break-Out. He has recently completed an MA in International Studies at the University of Durham. He lives in Middlesbrough.