Kevin Williamson

This is all at the beginning of the genocide?

I'm kind of lost for words

it sounds like poetry is about self-survival.

Absolutely.

In the face of everything you've experienced personally and what your people have experienced, to write a love poem is such an incredibly political act.

In the face of what's happened.

The politics of what you're facing seems loveless.

Do you find that the act of writing poetry now for you, since this genocide, since your own losses, has changed, has been transformed, the process as well as the words and the language?

That's such a powerful idea.

Poetry makes the unspeakable speakable.

And you need a sense of community around the speakable.

And that sense of community, it still exists among Gazan poets.

Tell us about Gaza's Creative Allies.

And how would any listener find the platform, Gaza's Creative Allies?

Now you live in exile now in Turkey.

From Turkey you've built a good relationship with Scottish poetry, Scottish poetry publishers and Scottish poets.

Your last two books have both been published in Scotland.

Assaulted Wounds was published by Drunk Muse Press and you've got a new book out.

The face before you to write poetry on genocide which is out in Leamington Books.

You've included the word genocide on the cover.