twelve minutes of love

Geography for the Lost

Published by Bloodaxe 2007 and AUP

Kassabova's achievement is to make the emigre life a metaphor of more general alienation. The evidence of a major talent is unmistakable

PN Review

villa pacifica kassabova

Someone else's life

Published by Bloodaxe and AUP 2003

Someone else's life tells with supreme clarity and fearless candor what it means to be adrift in the last years of the 20th century and the first of the 21st. It is a book of perpetual exile, of endless comings and goings, in a world that offers neither stability, nor salvation.


Mark Strand, US Poet Laureate

street without a name

All Roads Lead to the Sea

Winner of a NZ Montana Books Award for Best First Book of Poetry

Published by AUP 1997