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Abdo Wazen: Poems

styles and interests

including a linked series of plays under the collective title Appointments which were broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour shortly before her death

There is humour

She expertly immerses us in the landscapes and soundscapes of her twin homes of Scotland and Yorkshire – and

is, thinks Pearl Adrian Buckner Abdo Wazen: PoemsStep into Pearls world and take a tour around her faded seaside town, past the graffiti walls, bus stops and the old mattress factory. Except with Pearl as our guide the colours suddenly pop and every tiny detail becomes rich with interest. From the lido to the hair salon, to the Christmas shop in June, the ordinary becomes magical and every bit of wildness, weirdness and tattiness is whisked into the foreground. "Pearl" is an alter ego of the poet: