Letter
Tick-tock
2 February 1989
Jeremy Harding’s West Bank Diary (LRB, 2 February) was so good it seems churlish to point out that the poem he quoted is not by Mahmoud Darwish but by another distinguished Palestinian poet, Samih al-Qasim. It’s short enough to quote in full (in Abdullah al-Udhari’s translation):My city collapsedThe clock was still on the wallOur neighbourhood collapsedThe clock was still on the wallThe street...