Amir Darwish came to the UK as an
asylum seeker during the Second Gulf War, hanging underneath a lorry on a
cross-channel ferry. In his second full-length collection, he seeks to rescue
refugees from the popular media image as perpetrators or victims, reflecting on
the trauma, suffering and pain of the world’s 22 million refugees, what they
have left behind, what they have lost and where they have arrived. Dear
Refugee is a book about emigration and immigration, departures and
arrivals, longing and belonging, love, loss and exile.