MEMORY FOR DENIAL

E29 - Versi senza casa (Marwan Makhoul, read by Ines Gobetti)


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"in order for me to write poetry that isn’t
political, I must listen to the birds
and in order to hear the birds
the warplanes must be silent"

The poem "Lines Without a Home", read by Ines Gobetti, is part of the collection "Il loro grido è la mia voce. Poesie da Gaza", Fazi Editore 2025.

Marwan Makhoul was born to a Palestinian father and a Lebanese mother in 1979 in the village of Boquai'a in the Upper Galilee region of Palestine. He currently lives in the village of Maalot Tarshiha. He has published several works of poetry, including ‘Hunter of Daffodils’, ‘Land of the Sad Passiflora’, ‘Verses The Poems Forgot With Me’, ‘Where is my Mom?’ and ‘A Letter From The Last Man’. His poems have won several awards and appeared worldwide in Arabic publications and translated into many languages.

"Il loro grido è la mia voce"
https://fazieditore.it/libro/9791259677587

Thank you Ines for this powerful reading!

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