Reaper in a Headlock by Simon Alderwick Deryn Rees-Jones Translated from the Arabic and

Translated from the Arabic and introduced by Fady Joudah

continent to continent

Cover artwork by Sanna Räsänen

backwards in time and into my present

about the new day

Reaper in a Headlock by Simon Alderwick Deryn Rees-Jones Translated from the Arabic andReaper in a Headlock by Simon Alderwick is a wild, tender, and tonally agile collection that traverses grief, fatherhood, absurdity and cultural exhaustion with restless invention. Framed by elegy and shaped by wit, the poems move between lyrical observation and comedic deflation, evoking the solemn and the ridiculous in equal measure. Alderwick's voice is deeply human"unafraid to mourn, laugh, lash out, or play"and his formal range includes anecdote,