2022//limited edition 45 copies//cover art by Waqas Rabbani

Fizza Abbas is a writer based in Karachi, Pakistan. She is fond of poetry and music. Her work has appeared in more than 90 journals, both online and in print. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Idle Ink, Poetry Village, The Cabinet of Heed, Petrichor, Riggwelter Press, Poetry Pacific, The Stone of Madness Press, Better than Starbucks, Serotonin, Versification, One Hand Clapping Magazine, London Grip and elsewhere. Her first chapbook, Ool Jalool, won the Fahmidan Publishing 2021 Chapbook Competition and was released the same year. She has also been a Best of The Net nominee and Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition 2021’s shortlistee. Besides writing, she runs an interview series for writers on her YouTube channel. She can be reached out to at @fizzawrites on Twitter.

Visit Fizza’s Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZrZRCg9m_Nk5HR3MOkLfsA/videos

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‘’Meticulous detail, brilliant landscapes of memory and identity…Inherent struggle as a gifted Pakistani woman where freedom for women is not yet fully realized.

Collages of thought, metaphor, and imagery that are non-linear but very cohesive and present the whole person in fragments.

Questions are presented, thinking through the meaning of life and circumstances, with a beautiful repertoire of imagery and metaphor.

You can relate to the poems because they are like the way we think. Fizza has captured butterflies and bees from her mind and soul and created magic and a burning vision of reality with each poem.

Each poem makes you want more, and I eagerly look forward to knowing more of Fizza’s poetry in the future.’’

— Amy Hoskins, Writer and Multimedia visual artist based in Nashville

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‘’Fizza Abbas knows the tune of carbon. She has baked up a window for you to peer into, to gauge your reflection through the travails of the writer. Stripping poems to filamentary lines, Fizza composes the ultimate rejection letter, a dare-to entrance.

A shared red curls around the salty edges: a mother combs hair, contemplating the fault of mangoes and pot-bellied kings, culinary chemicals and the placidity of noble non-reactions.

The matriarch of words steeped in the flaming tongue, Fizza obliterates forethoughts of self, leaving you a stable carbon-based compound, like nibbled crayons and stolen grains of sand, to compete only with birds for cloud space.’’

- Christine Hall, Nashville-based poet, Host, Poetry in the Brew