The Pomegranates of Kandahar

In Sarah Maguires newest collection her rich and lyrical poems travel greaterdistances than ever before. The title poem laments the devastation visited uponAfgh... » 

In Sarah Maguires newest collection her rich and lyrical poems travel greaterdistances than ever before. The title poem laments the devastation visited uponAfghanistan following decades of war. Others consider the casualties ofpolitical unrest wouldbe migrants in Tangiers gazing northwards at thelongedfor phantasmagoria of Europe and packs of wolves on the loose inpostSoviet Kazakhstan. There are intimate moments as well as in Landscapewith Dead Sea where the erosion of the poets skin is connected to geologicaltransformations at the earths core. This is a moving and powerful collectionof work. «