Forty Names by Parwana Fayyaz Jennifer Wong written from the heart and

written from the heart and from the North

The Inland Sea (2001)

In his capacity as chief editor

offering compressed worlds

and Adcock’s style has not dated in the half-century since her debut

Forty Names by Parwana Fayyaz Jennifer Wong written from the heart andIn this remarkable first collection, Parwana Fayyaz evokes events in the lives of Afghan women, past and present their endurance and achievements, told from their points of view. John McAuliffe writes of the 'remarkable litanies, which haunt her poems' occasions' and the title poem, with which she won the 2019 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, is such a litany, conjuring and commemorating. The poems are not judgmental: they witness. The reader