Europe, Love Me Back Format:Paperback

Europe, Love Me Back Format:PaperbackEurope, Love Me Back is a collection of relentlessly questing, sharply satirical poems about the continent, and the poet's fraught relationship with it. Hurting yet clear eyed, Rizwan explores and exposes what it means to be a small brown woman in Dutch suburbs, hospitals and academia This is an angry love letter, to a place left behind yet always there, continuing to matter and hurt and shape the poet's identity. "But no one was interested in

2012) and the novella Boris by the Sea (Octopus Books

"This collection pays homage to all that the five senses might evoke

Dad said not to ask about the European years

They span places as far afield as Belfast

Guarding the Flame explores women's voices from Irish history and myth

and previously unpublished in the UK

a Beullah Rose Poetry Prize

He has previously edited two acclaimed anthologies for Iron Press: 100 Island Poems of Great Britain and Ireland (2005) and Writers on Islands (2008)

– Chris McCabe

for her father

It’s a full life

their extraordinary contribution has largely been forgotten