Art of Scratching

Taking inspiration from sources including historical and medical texts, curator''s notes and the Complete Kama Sutra, Shazea Quraishi''s poems explore love and loss through a range of voices: an Iraqi mother holds her fragile son; under the guise of ardour, a courtesan searches a client for signs of the woman she loves; a wife is unsettled by her husband''s new family'' The Art of Scratching is he...