Review of Basma Kavanagh’s “Ruba’iyat for the Time of Apricots”
by Megan Nega Ruba’iyat for the Time of Apricots Basma Kavanagh Frontenac House Poetry (2018) ISBN: 978-1-927823-81-1 Basma Kavanagh’s Ruba’iyat for the Time of Apricots is a long-form poem written in earthy quatrains that are woven together with delicate alliterative sound and entrancing imagery. Like streams driven by gravity towards a great body of water,…