Abdullah Bin Imran explores displacement, identity and belonging through poems that move between exile, memory, prejudice, and personal transformation. Drawing on images of borders, mirrors, cracks and changing skins, this collection explores what it means to live between cultures while confronting how other individuals perceive and define us and how we quite often become metaphorical borders ourselves.
Silver Busobozi
We Are the Borders is a poignant story of reckoning with the self through migration, misinterpretation, and even malice. This is a necessary collection that adds beautifully to the discourse of what it means to be human.
Rachel Turney, founder of Poetry (in Brief)
We are the Borders offers a glimpse of what it’s like to be part of the Pakistani diaspora. The poems shed and bleed, crack and transform. In four succinct parts, Imran explores the complexity of leaving the country you’re from and having to navigate a land where you feel you don’t belong.
Maya Cheav, author of by-the-wind-sailor
Abdullah Bin Imran’s work speaks to being an outsider—subtle yet surprisingly raw.
Ian Gouge, founder of Coverstory Books
Title: We Are the Borders
Author: Abdullah Bin Imran
Publisher: Rockwood Press
Released: 2026 - September
Format: chapbook, acid-free paper, silk cover
Pages: 30
Price: $10
ISBN: 978-1-59498-252-1
Abdullah Bin Imran explores displacement, identity and belonging through poems that move between exile, memory, prejudice, and personal transformation. Drawing on images of borders, mirrors, cracks and changing skins, this collection explores what it means to live between cultures while confronting how other individuals perceive and define us and how we quite often become metaphorical borders ourselves.
Silver Busobozi
We Are the Borders is a poignant story of reckoning with the self through migration, misinterpretation, and even malice. This is a necessary collection that adds beautifully to the discourse of what it means to be human.
Rachel Turney, founder of Poetry (in Brief)
We are the Borders offers a glimpse of what it’s like to be part of the Pakistani diaspora. The poems shed and bleed, crack and transform. In four succinct parts, Imran explores the complexity of leaving the country you’re from and having to navigate a land where you feel you don’t belong.
Maya Cheav, author of by-the-wind-sailor
Abdullah Bin Imran’s work speaks to being an outsider—subtle yet surprisingly raw.
Ian Gouge, founder of Coverstory Books
Title: We Are the Borders
Author: Abdullah Bin Imran
Publisher: Rockwood Press
Released: 2026 - September
Format: chapbook, acid-free paper, silk cover
Pages: 30
Price: $10
ISBN: 978-1-59498-252-1
