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    In the Name of Red: Poems
    In the Name of Red: Poems
    In the Name of Red: Poems
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    In the Name of Red: Poems

    By Z.R. Ghani and Louise Weir

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    From lips and warmed cheeks to silk and falling leaves, the subjects of Z.R. Ghani's poems radiate with redness. Sometimes a cloak, often a shining symbol, Ghani's reds are sacred and dazzling: pomegranates ripening to jewels and perfectly-placed bindis shining like suns.
    But something darker lurks beneath the ruby depths. A city is held hostage by a heatwave, a flame is lit in a dark room, a ballerina twists inside a jewellery box.
    As though developing photographs, Ghani shines a deep light over her poems as a tool to slowly make the unseen visible, the unsaid audible. This is a debut book rich with desire, shame, grief, faith, love, and at the forefront of it all: the colour red.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Emma Press
    Release dateApr 24, 2024
    ISBN9781915628237
    In the Name of Red: Poems
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    Z.R. Ghani

    Z. R. Ghani was born in London in 1990 and grew up in Mauritius. She studied Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Her work has been widely published and anthologised, appearing in journals including Magma, Willowherb Review, Square Wheel Press and Black Bough Poetry. In 2021 her first collection of poems was shortlisted for the Poetry Wales Pamphlet Competition. 'In the Name of Red' is her first poetry pamphlet.

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      In the Name of Red - Z.R. Ghani

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      PRAISE FOR IN THE NAME OF RED

      ‘Zaina Ghani is one of my favourite contemporary poets. Her highly poetic work feels tightly controlled and crafted, yet it leaves you breathless. This debut collection with The Emma Press, with all its freshness and originality, is one to savour.’

      — Matthew M. C. Smith

      ‘For Z.R. Ghani the colour red is the Borgesian aleph, the core, the sump, the source of everything: her own myths, narratives and traumas are cast in its supernal light. Her instrument is the finely honed and pellucid lyric, without the slightest hint of effort, overstatement or pretension. In the Name of Red is an exciting and highly sophisticated debut collection and Z.R Ghani is one to look out for.’

      — Tim Liardet

      POETRY PAMPHLETS

      Makeover, by Laurie Bolger

      Accessioning, by Charlotte Wetton

      Milk Snake, by Toby Buckley

      Overlap, by Valerie Bence

      POETRY COLLECTIONS

      Europe, Love Me Back, by Rakhshan Rizwan

      SHORT STORIES AND ESSAY COLLECTIONS

      About Us, by Reda Gaudiamo, translated from Indonesian by Ikhda Ayuning

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