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Adam Oliver | Shazaya | The Moth Poetry Prize 2025

Shortlisted for The Moth Poetry Prize 2025, judged by Ishion Hutchinson '"Shazaya" is delineated in couplets that have a clipped, cinematic tension, is about the harrowing moment and aftermath of a car bombing in Beirut. The spare, impressionistic language heightens without poetizing the vivid, tragic reality of such state violence. Its unflinching, clear-eyed depiction of the irreparable severity of that violence on a single human ‒ “stitching / him forever to that blast” ‒ cuts deep into those who can’t even articulate less imagine such violence, commonplace as it has become in our world. This stark intimate scope is one of the splendid achievements of “Shazaya”, how its caring, careful documentary accuracy underscores and voices the unbearable final elusiveness and bewilderment central not just to strong art but also to the act of witnessing.’ Ishion Hutchinson