A powerful, capacious and profound book, rich in intelligence and lyric dexterity that fuses poetry's two great promises, wonder and testament, into crystalline focus Ocean Vuong, author of Time Is a Mother
A glimpse into life in a besieged Gaza and what its like to survive and find care, even hope, under the most dire of conditions New York Times
If literature has any power to change the world or resist injustice, I think it must lie in the astounding poems of Mosab Abu Toha Noreen Masud, author of A Flat Place, in Guardian
The poems in Mosab Abu Toha's Forest of Noise are urgent, prayerful howls in the bleakest of nights each poetic line is, at its heart, a lifeline to survival Ada Limón, US Poet Laureate, author of The Hurting Kind
Abu Toha writes with a brilliance that makes anyone who encounters these astonishing poems both witness and kin Terrance Hayes, author of So to Speak
Heartbreaking, evocative, transformative poetry of witness to the horror of warfare This is powerful, impactful poetry, a book you wont soon forget. Forgetting is not an option llya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic
Astonishing Mosab Abu Toha is the essential poet embodying the humanity of Gaza, the precious hopes and dreams of all humans, the searing collective cries of children, the indelible honest conscience, the heart and soul Naomi Shihab Nye, author of The Tiny Journalist
Essential uses language to fight against those who would ignore his peoples plight Jhalak Review
Toha forces us to recognise the obliteration of potential wrought by genocide and apartheid This is a deeply clever book Susannah Dickey, author of Isdal
Mosab Abu Tohas poems etch themselves in your heart like shrapnel transformed to flowers. They dress the wounds of the human soul Pascale Petit, author of The Huntress
Full of fury and longing, an emblem of the richness of Palestinian culture Lindsey Hilsum, The List
Deeply powerful an urgent and essential must-read Service95
