Beyond the Barbed Wire: Selected Poems

Finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature 2020
Winner of an English PEN Award

Introduced by Jim Moore, with an interview by Christopher Schaefer

Beyond the Barbed Wire is a selection of work by Morocco’s greatest living poet. Abdellatif Laâbi’s poetry and literary activism has inspired a generation of writers and thinkers, and it resulted in his decade-long imprisonment. This volume gives a career-spanning overview of Laâbi’s poetry, from the late 1960s to the 2010s. It in...