Elaha! Elaha! Malaysian Hybrid Ghazals /by Elizabeth Marshall

• author: Elizabeth Marshall
• publisher: Maya Press
• published in: 2023
• language: English

The ghazals of Elizabeth Marshall are formally syntactically complete. But she has also updated this poetic form that is at least 1500 years old. She writes not just of childhood and heartbreak, love and loss, but also of the acute realities of contemporary Malaysian life. This is an altogether enthralling work written with deep feeling and power.   --Danton Remoto, writer, editor, teacher. Author of Riverrun and Heart of Summer: Stories and Tales.

About the author:

Elizabeth Marshall is an English Language teacher. She has been an academic with a Malaysian University for the past one and a half decades. She received her Master of Fine Arts (Poetry) from City University of Hong Kong in 2014. The ghazals in this collection formed part of her PhD entitled Malaysian Hybrid Ghazals. She currently teaches at Asia Pacific University’s language centre in Kuala Lumpur.