Signed by the author

Poet, publisher, and scholar Safa Khatib is a St. Louis local & a dear friend of the shop. Her new collection A Dress of Locusts has recently been published by Bloomsbury Poetry in the UK, and we'll be offering signed copies at regular price while supplies last.

Praise for A Dress of Locusts

'Essential reading' Poetry Book Society Review

'Safa Khatib's poems open my eyes, sharpen my ears' SAFIA ELHILLO

'With a meditative clarity, Khatib calls us to account for the ways we have – and continue to – turn eyes away from the historic now' NIKI HERD

About the book

An electrifying debut collection exploring language 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 journeys across the possibilities of language and self, asking us to dwell in the thresholds between the 'old' and the 'new'.