Thu, Oct 09
|Backstory English Bookshop
Samer Abu Hawwash in conversation with Robin Moger
Time & Location
Oct 09, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Backstory English Bookshop, Carrer de Mallorca, 330, L'Eixample, 08037 Barcelona, España
About the event
Palestinian poet Samer Abu Hawwash will be joining us for the launch of the English translation of his new collection, From the River to the Sea (Banipal Books, 2025), joined by his translator Robin Moger.
Originally published in Arabic in the summer of 2024, these 24 poems confront the horrors of the Gaza genocide while weaving them into the longer history of Palestinian exile and trauma. With stark, unforgettable imagery, Abu Hawwash captures both the brutality of destruction and the unbearable weight of witnessing: children’s frozen gazes, the rubble that refuses to be silent, the torment of language itself in the face of war.
This book is more than poetry: it is a lexicon of resistance, remembrance, and testimony. It asks how art can bear witness when words themselves seem broken — and insists on the necessity of trying.
Join us for an evening of conversation and readings…