Touched by Alan Buckley Russell Jones Although Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf

Although Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf has lived in exile in the UK for 20 years

helping us face or embrace daily change and disruption

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so enabling Lleshanaku to look back at the reality of her Albanian past and give voice to those who could not speak for themselves

Touched by Alan Buckley Russell Jones Although Asha Lul Mohamud YusufSome kinds of human damage are invisible and Not suffering in silence goes against the grain, as Alan Buckley says in Script. But the poems in Touched, his first full collection, do speak out. With delicacy and precision, they explore how it is to live with the psychological impact of trauma. In this landscape of risk, where the prospect of healing means everything, trust is perilous. As for lovewell, love is no less than terrifying. But not