Besharam by Nafeesa Hamid paperback and pays homage to lost

and pays homage to lost friends and poets – the voices of John Berryman

are present to the last

Dean Rhetoric’s Foundry Songs examines shame

Her elegies are restrained and devastating

loved and remembered

Besharam by Nafeesa Hamid paperback and pays homage to lostLearning that your mind and body have been taken hostage is one thing. Learning how to take them back is another. What if those that are returned are different to the ones that were lost? Besharam Nafeesa Hamids glorious debut collection asks this and many other questions. When does a girl become a woman? When does her world allow her to become a woman? And what kind of woman should she be? The answers arent readily forthcoming. As she treads the