If the Symptoms Persist Ounsi El Hage Cliff Yates

Cliff Yates

She captures a world split between the new scientific vocabulary of seismography and pyroclastic flows and the Old Testament talk of Sodom and Gomorrah and sins punished

for instance to Michael Moore and George

and author of Daring To Be a Teacher and Inclusive Schools

Winner of the Prešeren Foundation Prize

If the Symptoms Persist Ounsi El Hage Cliff YatesIf modern French poetry began with Rimbauds observation that je est un autre, Francis Combes believes that poets should now say, je suis tous les autres. Drawing on the tradition of Hugo and Aragon, the idea of une posie dutilit publique runs through Francis Combes stunning new collection, from pomes sans domicile fixe to pomes moraux et politiques. It is a book about poverty, homelessness, inequality, racism and the endless wars of the twenty first