Unceded Land

Searing psychological poetry by Palestinian-American health worker

A poignant engagement from the perspective of a rooted Palestinian diaspora grappling with history, territory and colonialism with a keen eye for unknotting emotions, recording beauty, and recognising love.

Issam Zineh’s debut poetry collection Unceded Land traces the lines of intimacy, loss, and colonial legacies. Zineh unearths psychological depths and interrogates geographical territories, bridging the gap between the mind and the world, the personal and the political, the poem and the reader. Here is the poetry of unknotted affect, of landscapes as primordial as they are crushed by history, of perception rooted in diasporic experience.