2 Choman Hardi Poems

Choman Hardi is a Kurdish poet who has also worked as a translator and painter. Her Kurdish poems have been published in three volumes and her English poems in two more editions, titled Life for Us and Considering the Women.

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At The Border, 1979

‘At The Border, 1979’ contrasts adult optimism with a child’s realism during a family’s migration, questioning the notion of home.

'At The Border, 1979' is one of the best examples of Choman Hardi’s poems and reflects the main ideas of her poetry such as displacement, identity, and the emotional side of borders. Hardi is often preoccupied with the themes of memory and identity, especially the memory of migration and people’s separation. This is a typical case of how she paints a picture and makes the reader feel that he or she is in the same boat with the subject of the poem in as much as they are separated by barriers of distance and politics. In this way, the poem belongs to the general tendency of Hardy’s poetry to explore important and sometimes uncomfortable topics while paying close attention to the emotional dimension of the human experience.

'It is your last check-in point in this country!'

We grabbed a drink -

soon everything would taste different.

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My Mother’s Kitchen

‘My Mother’s Kitchen’ reflects on an immigrant’s life through the lens of inherited items, contrasting with the yearning for home.

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