The Unsent Condolences

This collection of poems is the work of former refugee and journalist, Abdul Samad Haidari. The poems, grouped in five sections, give expression to the authors experiences of flight from war torn Afghanistan to Iran as a child of the oppressed Hazara ethnic group, and later boat travel to Indonesia where he remained as a stateless refugee without his family for almost a decade until being accepted in 2023 to live in Aotearoa New Zealand. The authors poetic voice bears witness to his pain, desperation, courage, resilience and capacity for hope. It forms part of a growing body of literature by long-term refugees who have turned to writing to reach out to the world community from their place of incarceration and to maintain their own sense of humanity and dignity. This is the authors second book. The first The Red Ribbon was published in Indonesia by Gramedia.