Customer Reviews

13 reviews

• Dr Elsayed Samir

  It is a wonderful and interesting book that I highly recommend you to read

• Khan Eagle

  I met Azza on twitter. She is not only a wonderful poet, but also a true friend of arts. When I read her poems, I found myself on a journey from ancient Egypt to the present. The plain language and rich metaphors she uses add a different flavor to her poems. In addition, her original sayings, inventions open a different window for poets and poetry lovers. For example:
  
  You, man, are so pure
  You couldn't be born
  From a human being
  But by a river
  
  This book definitely deserves 5 stars. I highly recommend it to all literature and poetry lovers.

• Ranga Iyer

  Azza is a fine writer who has command over sensitive portrayals. She chooses words with care, yet very effective. Her words reach for your heart and create images and visuals. And, the best part if, every line I read was relatable and I felt 'this has happened to me', 'I have experienced this'.
  Azza has this special ability to work with words and command them to form meanings and expressions and feelings.
  I love her poems. Azza is meant for writing poems, and to be surrounded by words and phrases.
  I have had the pleasure of interacting with this excellent poetess.
  And would say that her personality reflects in her writings. Pure, open, and large-hearted, who feels deeply and connects instantly to emotions, including happiness and, she is also one who doesn't hesitate to reach out.
  The Distance is a must-read for people who like to dig a little deeper and understand what lies deep inside their hearts.

• Ranga Rajah

  Azza El Wakeel’s strength lies in the fact that she uses easy and everyday language to describe complex emotions of love and longing.
  Ultimately, the power lies in her poems which carry you along and you begin to live the life of having loved and lost.
  Azza’s poems simply flow, like a carefree gypsy walking around the valleys and hills wearing flowers and colourful dresses, chasing a butterfly, and embracing the wind.
  This is how I felt reading while reading ‘A gypsy in a state of love’
  
  The spine, the heart of the book is love, so pure, so great, that it is not possible to have it from a mere mortal, it has to be divine, love out of this world.
  Can we find that kind of love ever in this world? In these times?
  After reading Azza’s poems, it feels that such love might be possible to find. It is just that, our heart needs to seek that level of love and we will all find it.
  Love that is innocent, love that is pure, love that is untouched, yet touched by everything including heartbreaks.
  
  There is a poem that is close to my heart, Apology. Why? We all want an ocean of love, not something that is fed drop by drop. The demands of a lover are Charmingly expressed
  
  In The titular poem ‘The Distance’ Azza talks about how a lover's heart cannot bear the distance and what it does to her heart, this same lover loved solitude, but being away from her beloved even temporarily the lover experiences different emotions including jealousy, confusion, unsafe, even suffering
  
  This collection includes poems that talk about longing, waiting, finding love, and departing from love.
  
  I am focussing on the love and lovers part. There are a few poems on other topics including covid, bombs, and sufferings around the world.
  Overall, Azza stays true to her theme of love, be it between two people, love for the world, or human lives.

• Steve

  Powerful, compact, full of movement and life. A must read for any poetry fan. For those not yet into the art of language, THIS BOOK MAY CHANGE YOUR MIND! Inspiring, but from such a grounded source, I could gush all day about Azza’s work. Dont waste anymore time reading my words, pick up The Distance now!!

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