Forty Names by Parwana Fayyaz Maram al-Masri to be a recognition and

to be a recognition and a discovery for years to come

especially because the spirit in which they were written was very authentic

the marsh fritillary

and the paintings of Renoir can also be detected under the surface of Alain-Fournier’s verse

the driver who picks up hitchhikers as he hurtles towards a head-on collision with Thatcherism

Forty Names by Parwana Fayyaz Maram al-Masri to be a recognition andIn this remarkable first collection, Parwana Fayyaz evokes events in the lives of Afghan women, past and present their endurance and achievements, told from their points of view. John McAuliffe writes of the 'remarkable litanies, which haunt her poems' occasions' and the title poem, with which she won the 2019 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, is such a litany, conjuring and commemorating. The poems are not judgmental: they witness. The reader