Knife Sharpener by Sargon Boulus Michael Edwards Described as “a writer of

Described as “a writer of great tenderness and lyricism” (Agenda

[…] His cosmopolitanism is neither idealized nor fetishised

who resolves to commit to write into the pain and horrors of our buried histories

In a sequence of dark fables

The collection is punctuated by landays- a Pashtun poetic form

Knife Sharpener by Sargon Boulus Michael Edwards Described as “a writer ofKnife Sharpener Selected Poems is a posthumous commemoration and celebration of Sargon Boulus, in a collection of poems, written between 1991 and 2007 that he translated himself, together with an essay, "Poetry and Memory", written a few months before he died in October 2007. With a Foreword by Adonis and an Introduction by Dublin poet and publisher Pat Boran, the volume includes nine pages of photographs and tributes from fellow poets and writers