Guantánamo

A collection of poems written by prisoners at Guantánamo Bay has been published for the first time in Britain today. Much of the poetry written has been destroyed by the military, but the surviving works were collected by Professor Marc Falkoff, an American law professor. "In truth, it is something of a miracle that the collection - or the poetry that comprises it - even exists."

Collecting the poems for this volume was "no easy task." Originally deemed classified information by the U.S. military, the poems were written with little expectation of being read outside Guantanamo. During Banned Books Week (September 29 - October 6) and throughout September and October, several booksellers across the country will be holding readings from the collection.

were they poems?, or perhaps a plan to destroy the western world ;)