Knife Sharpener by Sargon Boulus Michael Edwards These poems are fresh and

These poems are fresh and full zesty surrealism

is that such poetry is not only possible but absolutely necessary

[…] His cosmopolitanism is neither idealized nor fetishised

The collection is punctuated by landays- a Pashtun poetic form

So when she is invited to join her school’s slam poetry club

Knife Sharpener by Sargon Boulus Michael Edwards These poems are fresh andKnife Sharpener Selected Poems is a posthumous commemoration and celebration of Sargon Boulus, in a collection of poems, written between 1991 and 2007 that he translated himself, together with an essay, "Poetry and Memory", written a few months before he died in October 2007. With a Foreword by Adonis and an Introduction by Dublin poet and publisher Pat Boran, the volume includes nine pages of photographs and tributes from fellow poets and writers