This month’s theme, Radical imaginations, a provocation posed by Anahit, proposes that in the world on fire, art still offers the space for revolution. We talk to artists who continue to create under the very worst of circumstances, or in the face of overwhelming hopelessness, art as an act of remembering or inspiration or sometimes solace.
Our lead feature talks to Gaza poet Mosab Abu Toha, whose new collection Forest of Noise includes poems written before and during the genocide. His works record acts of violence and despair at the hands of the colonial oppressors, using poetry to conjure the human experience in reporting and remembering. “Poetry does not change people who do not believe in the humanity of others,” he says. “As they are closing their eyes, stuffing their ears with the rubble of our buildings, they are not going to hear the poem.”
