A powerful, capacious and profound book, rich in intelligence and lyric dexterity that fuses poetry's two great promises, wonder and testament, into crystalline focus’ Ocean Vuong, author of Time Is a Mother

‘A glimpse into life in a besieged Gaza and what it’s like to survive and find care, even hope, under the most dire of conditions’ New York Times

‘If literature has any power to change the world or resist injustice, I think it must lie in the astounding poems of Mosab Abu Toha’ Noreen Masud, author of A Flat Place, in Guardian

‘The poems in Mosab Abu Toha's Forest of Noise are urgent, prayerful howls in the bleakest of nights … each poetic line is, at its heart, a lifeline to survival’ Ada Limón, US Poet Laureate, author of The Hurting Kind

‘Abu Toha writes with a brilliance that makes anyone who encounters these astonishing poems both witness and kin’ Terrance Hayes, author of So to Speak

‘Essential … uses language to fight against those who would ignore his people’s plight’ Jhalak Review

‘Toha forces us to recognise the obliteration of potential wrought by genocide and apartheid … This is a deeply clever book’ Susannah Dickey, author of Isdal

‘Mosab Abu Toha’s poems etch themselves in your heart like shrapnel transformed to flowers. They dress the wounds of the human soul’ Pascale Petit, author of The Huntress

‘Full of fury and longing, an emblem of the richness of Palestinian culture’ Lindsey Hilsum, The List

‘Deeply powerful … an urgent and essential must-read’ Service95