Lynda Tavakoli – Unbroken The Gaza Poems – ebook

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Live Encounters Books-Reviews Volume Seven
November- December 2025

Unbroken – The Gaza Poems by Lynda Tavakoli.
ebook by Live Encounters Publishing, 2025.


Unbroken - The Gaza Poems ebook by Live Encounters Publishing

Some of these comments are prior to the publication of this book.
They have been added to reflect the deep appreciation many readers have for her poetry.

‘Tavakoli’s rich language and delicacy of touch are defining features of her poetry.’

     — Pulsar Poetry

‘Her poetry often stuns through her originality in word usage, her imagery.’

     — Robyn Rowland

‘Tavakoli’s ability to occupy fragile spaces with a muscular, sometime visceral presence, renders the deeply personal universal, often with startling clarity.’

     — Eileen Casey

‘Tavakoli tackles her subject with a great deal of respect and a sense of shared humanity.’

     — Jan Carson

‘There’s a raw honesty and palpable strain of acute authenticity running through her poems and Lynda Tavakoli’s linguistic sensibilities and powers of observation are portable.’

     — The late John Maxwell O’Brien


© Lynda Tavakoli
 

Lynda Tavakoli lives in County Down, Northern Ireland, where she facilitates adult creative writing classes and has worked as a tutor for the Seamus Heaney Award for schools. She is a professional member of The Irish Writers Centre and has been nominated for Best of the Net and The Pushcart Prize. A poet and novelist, Lynda’s work has been published worldwide with Farsi and Spanish translations. She has been winner of a number of international poetry and short story awards and been published in numerous journals and anthologies including Live Encounters Poetry & Writing, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, The Galway Review, Skylight47, Abridged, CAP Seamus Heaney Anthologies, Eat the Storms, Drawn to the Light Press, amongst many others.  Lynda’s debut poetry collection, The Boiling Point for Jam received wide acclaim for its raw honesty and authenticity while her second collection A Unison of Breaths has been recently published by Arlen House.

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