In the Name of Red

By Z.R. Ghani

From lips and warmed cheeks to silk and falling leaves, the subjects of Z.R. Ghani's poems radiate with redness. Sometimes a cloak, often a shining symbol, Ghani's reds are sacred and dazzling: pomegranates ripening to jewels and perfectly-placed bindis shining like suns.But something darker lurks beneath the ruby depths. A city is held hostage by a heatwave, a flame is lit in a dark room, a ballerina twists inside a jewellery box.As though developing photographs, Ghani shines a deep light over her poems as a tool to slowly make the unseen visible, the unsaid audible. This is a debut book rich with desire, shame, grief, faith, love, and at the forefront of it all: the colour red.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1915628229
• ISBN13: 9781915628220
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Emma Press Ltd
• Length: 38 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.1" x 7.8"