A searing poetic vision of violence, love, and survival in a broken world. In Premonitions News Flash, Iraqi poet Yass Assaidi offers one of the most urgent works of translated Arabic Iraqi poetry in recent years, confronting the brutalities of power, betrayal, and loss with fearless lyricism and aching intimacy. From the anguish of a father mourning his stolen children to the whispered rage of the oppressed addressing their killers, these poems shatter boundaries between the personal and the political, the lyrical and the raw. Divided into three movements—on murder and memory, love and its ruins, and orphaned sorrow—this collection blends stark imagery with emotional depth, offering a poetic lens into the traumas shaping contemporary Arab identity. As a powerful work of translated Arabic Iraqi poetry, it resonates far beyond its borders. Translated by Mbarek Sryfi, and winner of the Authors' Category – 2024 Bait Al-Ghasham DarArab International Translation Prize, Premonitions News Flash is a resonant, unflinching collection from one of Iraq's most vital poetic voices.