My Mother's Language by Abdellatif Laâbi, trans. By André Naffis-Sahely William Plomer where Watts raises the Thoreau-like

where Watts raises the Thoreau-like question: ‘How do I live

drawing on the authors experience as a street musician

Acknowledging that the beautiful view and decluttered house depend on the dump

to leaving one’s mark and understanding one’s place in the passage of time

even if we learn to name ourselves in our 'more difficult language'

My Mother's Language by Abdellatif Laâbi, trans. By André Naffis-Sahely William Plomer where Watts raises the Thoreau-likeAbdellatif Labi is widely acknowledged to be Morocco's greatest living poet. For the last fifty years, he has produced works of unique philosophical and emotional insight that have been guided above all by a commitment to say what needed to be said. In 1972 this led to his arrest, torture and eight and a half year imprisonment. This selection features some of his most powerful shorter poems alongside a long extract from his seminal work 'Casablanca