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This book is a detailed feminist reading of the poetry of a selected group of Kurdish women poets which has been written in Sorani Kurdish. The poets come from two different locations, but are originally from Iraqi Kurdistan. A group of them live in the diaspora and the rest are home-based. Thus, it is the study of the Sorani-written poetry produced by Kurdish women poets locally and externally. The study chooses the time extending from 1990 to 2009 as its scope. There are clear reasons for the selection of this time as it stands for the most hectic period when Kurdish women s poetry flourishes at a fast pace in southern Kurdistan. The study argues that the liberation of southern Kurdistan in 1991 from the overthrown Iraqi Ba th regime plays a vital role in the productive reemergence of Kurdish women s poetry after decades of silence and suppression being inflicted by the male-dominated Kurdish literature.

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Saman Salah Balaky was born in 1977 in Balakyan village, Erbil, Kurdistan Region. He completes his school education in his village. He achieves his BA in English language and literature and MA in modern British drama at Salahaddin University in Erbil. His PhD was accomplished at the University of Exeter in the UK in 2013 on Kurdish literature.

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