My Mother's Language by Abdellatif Laâbi, trans. By André Naffis-Sahely William Plomer to leaving one’s mark and

to leaving one’s mark and understanding one’s place in the passage of time

which move beyond the breathlessness of panic towards luminescence and solidarity

Kuli Kohli

In these ‘Post-Feminist’ times

drawing on the authors experience as a street musician

My Mother's Language by Abdellatif Laâbi, trans. By André Naffis-Sahely William Plomer to leaving one’s mark andAbdellatif Labi is widely acknowledged to be Morocco's greatest living poet. For the last fifty years, he has produced works of unique philosophical and emotional insight that have been guided above all by a commitment to say what needed to be said. In 1972 this led to his arrest, torture and eight and a half year imprisonment. This selection features some of his most powerful shorter poems alongside a long extract from his seminal work 'Casablanca