In the Name of Red: Poems

A debut pamphlet of poems from Z.R. Ghani rich with desire, shame, grief, faith, love, and at the forefront of it all: the colour red.

From lips and warmed cheeks to silk and falling leaves, the subjects of Z.R. Ghani’s poems radiate with redness. Sometimes a cloak, often a shining symbol, Ghani’s reds are sacred and dazzling: pomegranates ripening to jewels and perfectly-placed bindis shining like suns.

But something darker lurks beneath the ruby depths. A city is held hostage by a heatwave, a flame is lit in a dark room, a ballerina twists inside a jewellery box.

As though developing photographs, Ghani shines a deep light over her poems as a tool to slowly make the unseen visible, the unsaid audible. This is a debut book rich with desire, shame, grief, faith, love, and at the forefront of it all: the colour red.

• | Author: Z.R. Ghani
• | Publisher: The Emma Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 24, 2024
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• | Binding: Pamphlet
• | ISBN-13: 9781915628220
• | ISBN-10: 1915628229