A Dress of Locusts by Safa Khatib Lucy Dawkins Robert Selby’s first collection introduces

Robert Selby’s first collection introduces a poet of outstanding range and versatility

’ declares this mesmerising collection from Trinidadian writer Andre Bagoo

film and creative captioning feels very important … to reclaim the right to be a poet and to use both signed and written word to demonstrate the diversity and richness of the Deaf community … commenting on being Deaf

these meditations on beauty and the elusive nature of love are insightful and hard-won: the spirit triumphs

A beautiful

A Dress of Locusts by Safa Khatib Lucy Dawkins Robert Selby’s first collection introducesPublished 19th June 2025. An electrifying debut collection exploring langage and revolution, by an extraordinary new poetic talent Woven from threads of Aramaic, Spanish, Ancient Greek, Sumerian and Arabic, A Dress of Locusts is an unforgettable song cycle in which the living and dead sing back and forth to one another. Here, Safa Khatib participates in a poetic tradition Jerome Rothenberg once called the "Revolution of the Word', journeying across