{"product_id":"48-kg","title":"48 kg.","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cspan\u003eBatool Abu Akleen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eTranslated from the Arabic by the poet, with Graham Liddell, Wiam El-Tamami, Cristina Viti \u0026amp; Yasmin Zaher\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eTenement Press\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ePaperback, 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e135 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eA debut collection from the Palestinian poet, a bilingual assembly of forty-eight poems in which each work accounts for a single kilogram; a body’s mass; a testament to a sieged city; a vivid and visceral voicing of the personal and the public in the midst of unspeakable violence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eBatool Abu Akleen is a Palestinian poet and translator from Gaza City. At the age of fifteen, 2020, she won the Barjeel Poetry Prize for her poem ‘I didn’t steal the cloud,’ which was published in the Beirut-based magazine \u003ci\u003eRusted Radishes\u003c\/i\u003e thereafter. Abu Akleen’s poetry has been translated into several languages and featured in numerous international publications, including \u003ci\u003eArabLit\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Massachusetts Review\u003c\/i\u003e, amongst others. Her poem ‘Gunpowder’ was awarded third place in the 2025 \u003ci\u003eLondon Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e poetry prize, and her work was included in the July 2024 issue of \u003ci\u003eModern Poetry in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e, ‘Salam to Gaza.’ Abu Akleen was \u003ci\u003eModern Poetry in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e’s 2024 ‘Poet \/ Translator in Residence.’ Her poetry has appeared in editors Mohammed Al-Zaqzooq and Mahmoud Alshaer’s anthology, \u003ci\u003eLetters from Gaza\u003c\/i\u003e (Penguin, 2025) and—alongside Nahil Mohan, Sondos Sabra and Ala’a Obaid— she is one of the four Gazan authors included in \u003ci\u003eVoices of Resistance: Diaries of Genocide\u003c\/i\u003e (Comma Press, 2025).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55115969167694,"sku":null,"price":17.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/0680\/6606\/files\/48Kg_Cover_v2.jpg?v=1762873977","url":"https:\/\/eastbristolbooks.co.uk\/products\/48-kg","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}