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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 The Flirtation of Girls
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'With her first full-length poetry collection, Sara M Saleh introduces us to the polychromatic lives of girls and women as they come into being amidst war, colonial and patriarchal violence, and exile and migration. This searing work interrogates and represents the complexity of Arab-Australian Muslim women’s identities as they negotiate an irresistible world full of music and family, grit and grief, love and loss.

'Saleh’s poetry is not only an inherently political act, but a deeply personal one, charged with multilayered conversations and meditations amongst three generations of women in Sara’s family. Her poems dazzle with an incantatory force of spirit, survival and selfhood, proving without a doubt that Saleh is one of this country’s most compelling, contemporary poets.' (Publication summary)

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Works about this Work

Book Review : The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal El-Banat, Sara M Saleh Adele Aria , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , November 2023;

— Review of The Flirtation of Girls Sara Saleh , 2023 selected work poetry

'A debut collection of poetry navigating the lives of Arab-Australian Muslim women.'

y separately published work icon Sara M Saleh in Conversation Mark Rubbo (interviewer), 2023 27357990 2023 single work podcast interview

'In this episode, a conversation with Sara M Saleh, author of the new poetry collection, The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat. Saleh is not only a poet; she is a human rights lawyer, and is the author of a novel, Songs for the Dead and the Living, which was published only a couple of months ago.

'Saleh is the daughter of Palestinian, Lebanese and Egyptian migrants, a lineage very much alive in her work, advocacy, and craft. She also co-edited the 2019 anthology Arab, Australian, Other: Stories on Race and Identity, and Saleh is the first and only poet to win both the Peter Porter Poetry Prize and the Judith Wright Poetry Prize.' (Production summary)

Book Review : The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal El-Banat, Sara M Saleh Adele Aria , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , November 2023;

— Review of The Flirtation of Girls Sara Saleh , 2023 selected work poetry

'A debut collection of poetry navigating the lives of Arab-Australian Muslim women.'

y separately published work icon Sara M Saleh in Conversation Mark Rubbo (interviewer), 2023 27357990 2023 single work podcast interview

'In this episode, a conversation with Sara M Saleh, author of the new poetry collection, The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat. Saleh is not only a poet; she is a human rights lawyer, and is the author of a novel, Songs for the Dead and the Living, which was published only a couple of months ago.

'Saleh is the daughter of Palestinian, Lebanese and Egyptian migrants, a lineage very much alive in her work, advocacy, and craft. She also co-edited the 2019 anthology Arab, Australian, Other: Stories on Race and Identity, and Saleh is the first and only poet to win both the Peter Porter Poetry Prize and the Judith Wright Poetry Prize.' (Production summary)

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