Seat of a Passenger Who Left the Bus

Wadih Saadeh & Robin Moger, The Sultan's Seal, June 2017

Have you heard of Wadih Saadeh?

I confess I had not.

It was Youssef Rakha who tipped me off:

Sydney is home to my favourite poet in the Arabic-speaking world.

That is quite an introduction. Much searching located this piece by Saadeh at the Sultan’s Seal and another in Cordite Poetry Review, both translated by Robin Moger.

I was once in darkness and now I have seen the light.

I am told that a book, also from Cordite, is on the way.