by Rafik Romdhani (Author)
Rough Roads is Tunisian poet Rafik Romdhani's third published collection. It follows on from Dance of the Metaphors and Crash of Verses as a showcase of the extraordinary talents of the North African poet. Rafik's poetry is a window into his introspective thoughts. It is a genuinely wide open window onto art in itself, where the unthinkable and the weird can occur to make things happen through the power of the words. His poetry exposes the invisible nooks we all hide deep inside us to create an ample space for the metaphysical, through metaphorical propensities and mysteries. As Rafik says: 'poetry instructs language what to do and causes words to discover a new meaning.' In Rough Roads you will discover a lyrical art form that recreates reality conveyed in Rafik Romdhani's inimitable style of beading words into worlds that colour and elucidate all of the possible versions of ourselves that the future might possibly contain.