Opinion: How to embrace Palestine through poetry

The following text talks about embracing Palestine through poetic language, which can bring to the fore what is often considered “unspeakable”, forcing us to invest in the labour of deciphering and understanding. 

Poets describe how people interact, fail each other, and embrace each other. 

There are deadly embraces: ones that smother, obfuscate, and annihilate - yet they cannot erase Palestine. There are also unintended embraces: ones that haunt, but mutually entangle both parties.

Lastly, there are friendly embraces: warm and comforting, yet faraway, and unable to offer protection from Israel’s ongoing process of dehumanisation.

READ MORE: How to embrace Palestine through poetry, opinion by Brigitte Herremans