Biography

Hasib Hourani is a Lebanese-Palestinian writer, editor, arts worker and educator living on unceded Wangal Country.

Hasib's debut book, rock flight was released with Giramondo (AU) and Prototype (UK) in 2024 and will be released with New Directions (US) in April 2025.

Praise for rock flight:


Here is a poetry of passion; a poetry of necessity; a poetry of survival, and a poetry-triumphant. —Maxine Beneba Clarke

rock flight is a work of timelessness, rigour, precision, relationality and guts – just like its poet. —Alison Whittaker

Be ready to be transformed by Hourani’s diasporic anticolonial poetics. —Don Mee Choi

Hourani’s language is crystal clear and complex. —Bec Kavanagh

There is something impressively mathematical about Hourani’s multiplications of meaning. —Jumaana Abdu

rock flight is an extra-poetic call to action possessing a feral desire for language to become object. —Tom Branfoot

Hourani’s poetic power lies in his knack for shifting language as though between states of matter. —Austin Spendlowe


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