Ebook {Epub PDF} Small Hands by Mona Arshi

Mona Arshi’s debut collection Small Hands won the Forward Prize for best first collection, and her relatively short poetic CV is a comet-tail of successes: Magma Competition prize , joint winner of the Manchester Poetry prize , an award in the Troubadour – she . Mona Arshi is a poet and a lawyer who lives in West London. Her début collection of poem ‘Small Hands’ was published by Liverpool University in the Spring of and won the Forward Collection for best first collection in  · Mona Arshi's debut collection, 'Small Hands', introduces a brilliant and compelling new voice. At the centre of the book is the slow detonation of grief after her brother's death but her work focuses on the whole variety of human experience: pleasure, hardship, tradition, energised by language which is in turn both tender and bltadwin.ru: Mona Arshi.

Small Hands - Ebook written by Mona Arshi. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Small Hands. Mona Arshi's debut collection Small Hands won the Forward Prize for best first collection, and her relatively short poetic CV is a comet-tail of successes: Magma Competition prize , joint winner of the Manchester Poetry prize , an award in the Troubadour - she has traced a brilliant trajectory in a short bltadwin.ru heard her read but only more closely reading her debut collection. This is the first in a series of reviews I will post over the next two months of the 5 collections chosen for the Forward Prizes Felix Dennis award for best First Collection. The £ prize will be decided on 28th September. The shortlist is: Mona Arshi - Small Hands (Liverpool University Press, Pavilion Poetry).

Arshi is a poet, which is more difficult to make copy out of, but much less distracting from the poems. Small Hands is a beautiful, minimally-designed and tiny edition – even the font is noticeably smaller than the industry norm – and Liverpool University Press have done an excellent job making the physical object match the work inside it. The collection is full of curious, shifty poems that seem intent on approaching their subjects sidelong, or from multiple angles at once. Mona Arshi worked as a Human rights lawyer at Liberty before she started writing poetry. Her debut collection ‘Small Hands’ won the Forward Prize for best first collection in Her poems and interviews have been published in The Times, The Guardian, Granta and The Times of India as well as on the London Underground. She completed her Masters in poetry in at the University of East Anglia with a distinction. Her debut collection ‘Small Hands’ won the Forward Prize for best first collection in She has also been a prizewinner in the Magma, Troubadour and Manchester creative writing competitions.