Honoured

By Yvonne Green

"These poems draw you in, gently but firmly, with telling detail and great emotional power. You share what Yvonne Green observes -- very beautifully -- about day-to-day experience; appreciate what she has personally learnt about suffering; and reflect with her on the contribution poetry can make to understanding (perhaps even resolving) the world's problems. Honoured, as well as being the title of a harrowing individual poem about female martyrdom, is well-chosen as the title of the book honouring the reader with its intelligence and compassion -- and with the occasional agreeable surprise." Alan Brownjohn
"These are vital, fiercely moving poems, alive with the danger, fear, violence and loss of a diaspora. Yvonne Green invites us to "....know about coming from a country that doesn't exist" and takes us beyond borders and language in her expansive, profoundly relevant exploration of identity and the meaning of 'home'." Josephine Corcoran

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Poetry Business
• Release date: Sep 17, 2021
• ISBN: 9781912196982

Yvonne Green

Yvonne Green who lives in Hendon and Herzilia was born in London in 1957. Her first collection, "Boukhara", won a Poetry Business Pamphlet award in 2007. Her second collection, "The Assay", won translation funds from Lord Gavron and Celia Atkin and was published in Hebrew by Am Oved as "Hanisu Yi". Her third collection, "After Semyon Izrailevich Lipkin", was the Poetry Book Society's Translation Choice for Winter in 2011. Her poem, 'Welcome To Britain', was commended in the Buxton Poetry Competition 2012. She has reviewed for the London Magazine, interviewed for PN Review, contributed to the 2015 "Penguin Book of Russian Poetry" and broadcast on Radio 4.

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Honoured

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to the following who have published or broadcast some of these poems.

And Other Poems website (andotherpoems.wordpress.com), Brittle Star, Buxton Poetry Competition, Campaign To Free Gilad Shalit, Cardinal Points, Gold Dust Magazine (youtube.com/watch?v=1xuA9sCCaz8), Ha’aretz, Ha’aretz.com, Jerusalem Post, Jewish Quarterly, Jewish Renaissance, Joker Magazine, JW3 (youtube.com/watch?v=9UVkhAjlu_8), londongrip.co.uk, PN Review, Poems In The Waiting Room, Poetry Please BBC Radio 4,

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Published 2015 by Smith|Doorstop Books

an imprint of The Poetry Business

Campo House

54 Campo Lane

Sheffield S1 2EG

www.poetrybusiness.co.uk

Copyright & poems © Yvonne Green 2015

The moral rights of the author of have been asserted

ISBN 978-1-912196-98-2

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Contents

This Is Not Your History

An End

This Is Not Your History

Bare Hands

There Ought To Be A Song 1

Builders

First Generation

Oil Slick

Road Mender

Magic Carpet

‘She Wants To Land The Balloon’

Old Recipes

That Kind Of War

That Kind Of War

The Poetry Of Propaganda

War Poem

Shooting