{"product_id":"ritual-a-collection-of-muslim-australian-poetry-edited-by-sara-m-saleh-and-zainab-syed-with-manal-younus","title":"'Ritual: A Collection of Muslim Australian Poetry' edited by Sara M. Saleh and Zainab Syed, with Manal Younus","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eBringing together thirty-nine Muslim-Australian poets, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRitual\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e gathers work across radically different relationships to faith, migration, family, race, place, violence, language and belonging. \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Muslim-Australian” isn't a coherent identity to be explained by way of poetry, instead the anthology is more about what happens during the fracture. There is the devotional alongside secular, intimate alongside political, inherited language beside contemporary vernacular, and the private rituals of family or prayer against the very public machinery of Islamophobia and representation. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe poems remain individual voices first, moving through grief, humour, anger, desire, memory, colonialism, Palestine, family and ordinary life. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdited by poets Sara M. Saleh and Zainab Syed with Manal Younus, the collection includes writers such as Omar Musa, Sara Mansour, Lamisse Hamouda, Rashida Murphy, Mohammad Awad and Adrian Mouhajer, with a foreword by Eugenia Flynn. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, Sweatshop Literacy Movement, 2025. Paperback. 130pp. Very good. Light handling and shelf wear to covers; internally clean and bright.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67633989582931,"sku":null,"price":13.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/womenintranslation-2026-10-09T170327.516.png?v=1791525823","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/ritual-a-collection-of-muslim-australian-poetry-edited-by-sara-m-saleh-and-zainab-syed-with-manal-younus","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}