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Minutes from the Miracle City
Farida, a Moroccan beautician hoping for a fresh start. Hakim, a Pakistani taxi driver whizzing through the streets. Patrick, a Ugandan security guard with aspirations of becoming a writer. Saeed, a respected Emirati journalist just back from London. Taking place across the last few days of Ramadan, Minutes from the Miracle City is a unique retelling of the virtuoso project that is Dubai.
Dye, and Other Stories
"Omar Sabbagh expertly draws in his readers with prose that is as intense, enchanting and witty as it is philosophical. The style can be flamboyant, pushing every word to work on several levels and making us wonder about the fundamental nature of our reality, but the prose always remains inviting, enticing us to think and empathise deeply. Sabbagh is a daring and intelligent writer, sharp-eyed and quick-tongued, yet always humane and compassionate. Dye and Other Stories will challenge and delight in equal measure." Dr Jan Fortune, Editor, Cinnamon Press "In Omar Sabbagh's Dye and Other Stories, we have a voice that is intelligent, opinionated and persuasive--written from the point of view of a "privileged inhabitant". Straddling both fiction and creative non-fiction genres, the pieces here travel vertically, horizontally and spatially in three-dimensions, mapping several geographical terrains--spaces that are real and unreal, factual and imaginative--in a prose style that is inimitably the author's very own." Sudeep Sen, author of EroText (Vintage: Penguin Random House) and The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (editor)
To the Middle of Love
In his fourth full collection, Omar Sabbagh's finely tuned ear is increasingly acute to the nuances of love and life, belonging and exile. His voice is distinctive, sharp, intense and the cool turn of phrase belies the daring, passion and constant push against the darkness concealed beneath the surface of every line.
But it was an Important Failure
In this fifth collection Omar Sabbagh establishes himself as a mature and distinctive voice in poetry with an extraordinary facility for language, an intense gift for observation, and a reflective and intuitive grasp of connections, especially to others. But It Was An Important Failure is an insightful, lyrical and confessional harvest of engaging poetry; the cultivation of a language garden for 'the rigor and flow in the happiness of gardening.'
The Square Root of Beirut
Following the critically acclaimed debut, My Only Ever Oedipal Complaint, Lebanese-British poet Omar Sabbagh delivers an outstanding second collection. Widely published in highly respected journals.
My Only Ever Oedipal Complaint
Drawing together disparate worlds: the Lebanese and the Western; the academic, brimming with literary allusion, and the soul raw with suffering; the political and the personal, Omar Sabbagh weaves lyrical, intelligent pieces that range over family relationships, love, passion and war, always with something new to say and a distinctive way of saying it.
Morning Lit
An exploration of fatherhood that takes us beyond the quotidian to explore the ties that bind with a philosophical eye and a lyrical heart. In his most personal collection yet, Omar Sabbagh brings a concentrated gaze to bear on turbulent emotions. Morning Lit is a deep and sustained exploration of fatherhood, marriage and bereavement: of love and its shadow side, which is loss. Crammed with symbolism, it is a work of maturity both emotional and poetic. Fiona Sampson Omar Sabbagh offers his readers deeply contemplative-and even more deeply felt-windows into the both the seemingly relentless tensions and nearly transcendent joys of family life. Sabbagh masterfully demonstrates the full range o...
RIP
RIP is located in a world of loss. Waddah Faris was Omar Sabbagh's maternal uncle. He was an artist, a nomad, a man who 'embossed' himself on those he knew, a person who '...when he walked into a room / God switched-on his camera' ('Charisma'). Above all, Waddah Faris was loved: 'People loved you because they knew you, and knew, too, / that kindness for you was inevitable, a lit fuse. / You lived your life like a full-bodied wish, careless with your care, ' ('Life With Style'). His loss is enormous and for the poet and his family that loss is deeply personal. Those dying in Gaza are so many that the particularity of death is too easily subsumed in overwhelm. We can hardly fathom the enormity...
For Echo
"A thought-provoking collection that delves into the depths of human emotions, relationships, and the power of language and art, often depicting a sense of longing, loss, and the search for meaning. The poems highlight the consequences of missed opportunities, the weight of regret, and the realisation of one's own limitations. And they explore the transformative power of love-the relationship between the poet and his daughter, Alia, being a recurring theme. Through rich imagery and introspective reflections, Omar Sabbagh invites readers to contemplate the complexities of existence." - Adam Wyeth, Associate Artist, Civic Theatre Dublin "It's always gripping when a writer turns the textual mir...
Reading Fiona Sampson
This book-length study of an eminent, distinguished and influential poet and contemporary woman of letters integrates analysis and a honed interpretation of the near-total gamut of the oeuvre to-date of Professor Fiona Sampson. The study includes biographical insight and synthesizes its rigorous discussions of the dominant rubric of Professor Sampson’s poetic métier, her prose in different genres, and the literary practices of over a decades-long and much-lauded literary career. This critical work finds and displays incisive and fruitful ways by which the oeuvre in question crosses boundaries in literary writing and practices with fertile results and evidences those cross-currents in a manner that indicates the trajectory of a sensibility or structure of feeling, one which though highly intelligent and self-aware is also deeply empathic. A lucid, coherent and compelling reading of Sampson’s main works makes this book a scintillating study and a much needed contribution to the current work being done on major contemporary poets and writers and, in particular, contemporary women figures, in the British and international literary scenes.
