An Unfinished Sufficiency Joan Jobe Voss translated by Clive Wilmer and

translated by Clive Wilmer and Viara Tcholakova

Connecticut in 1937

We also include the young Swedish-Tunisian writer Jonas Hassen Khemiri who writes in Swedish

The prize has been set up by Banipal Magazine and the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature

Huda al-Jahouri from Oman

An Unfinished Sufficiency Joan Jobe Voss translated by Clive Wilmer andRuth OCallaghans poetry has a rare ability to sustain the highest emotional and spiritual stakes. Fiona Sampson. Philosophical, exuberant, incantatory, sensual and meditative, these poems embrace the complexities of death, loss and love. Although observed with a detached eye their unflinching truth is simultaneously intimate and compassionate. The poems, written in both formal and free verse, constantly explore the boundaries within the human