Wheat in Cotton

Jada Qassem’s first poetry collection won A M Qattan Foundation’s 2015 Young Writers Award. The competition jury stated that the collection “presents a new feminine poetic voice through prosaic poetry that carries female concerns and is characterized by a meditative tendency, which elevates its poetics and coherence. There is a rhythmic warmth and novel, sometimes astounding assessments in poems that progressively brim with imagery, meaning and sentiment, as though creating from nothingness, rather than a past image, something akin to sculpture in a serious exploration of ‘the other’, who in this case are men…”