A Friend's Kitchen Salima Saleh when the aspiring black office-boy

when the aspiring black office-boy

Irish Times (on The Mischievous Boy)

begins to move

no matter how old they really are

becomes an anti-narrative lament that stretches the boundaries of the poetic form

A Friend's Kitchen Salima Saleh when the aspiring black office-boyAl Saddiq Al Raddi is one of the leading African poets writing in Arabic today. Born in Khartoum, Sudan, he has lived in exile in London since 2012. The poems in this World Poet Series book emerged in the aftermath of Al Raddis arrival, when he was separated from his wife and children for nearly five years. During late, uncertain nights awake in a strange city, he would write brief, mystical, often stream of consciousness texts to post on Facebook,