The Wounded Winds

This extended poetic meditation on the nature of exile and of suffering is dedicated to the poet's family in Paris, London, Meknès and Oujda. The evocation of the dispersal of the immigrant in different lands and to far away cities also makes a fitting epigraph for the themes of solitude, of loss, of remembering around which the text is woven. This is the song of the Moroccan exile, but it is also the song of all exiles and emigrants, the 'orphans' of the world with whom the poem opens.A nostalgia for a childhood and a homeland nonetheless pervaded by poetry, a desire to understand the self and the world, a search for an identity amongst the languages and the cultures that surround him are all reiterated here with an emotive force. D. Kelly

Ben Younes Majin, an Arab poet from Morocco, has lived in London since the 1970s. He completed his primary and secondary studies in his hometown of Oujda, then completed his university studies in London. He holds a master's degree in translation from the University of Westminster - London. He writes in Arabic, French and English. Publishing started in the late sixties, and many Arab newspapers and magazines were published for him. He has published texts in many specialized literary sites on the Arab and European Internet networks.