Cooing doves, old women watering jasmine trees at dawn and a mother’s kindness are all images that a young Syrian poet and refugee has used to address the loss she feels after fleeing her homeland.

Teenager Amineh Abou Kerech left Syria in 2012, one year into the decade-long conflict which has devastated the country.

She recently participated in an event at the United Nations where she spoke about her poem “Lament for Syria” which won the UK’s prestigious Betjeman Poetry Prize in 2017.

She reads her poem for UN News.