FETCH YOUR MOTHER’S HEART by
Lisa minerva Luxx
lisa luxx’s debut poetry collection is an examination of the tender violence that pools in all our states of wanting; from our intimacies to our uprisings. It searches the grief of our longing, from the eyes of displacement; carrying her experience in foster care, adoption, and as a mixed-heritage daughter of the Arab diaspora. Set within the Lebanese Revolution and from the heart of the mutual aid networks that operated after the 2020 Beirut Blast.
“Vigorously intellectual and politically febrile”
— Poetry Review
“Tender, political, simultaneously exuberant and mournful, and lovingly populated with family of every definition.”
— Safia Elhillo, award-winning author
lisa minerva luxx is a poet, playwright, essayist and political activist of British Syrian heritage.
Their work is broadcast on Channel 4, BBC Radio 4 and TEDx. Their poetry and essays are published worldwide, in anthologies and literary journals including by Penguin Books, Al Jazeera and New England Review.
As playwright and director they have created three verse-plays, including the immersive installation opera on decolonial climate justice, what the dog said to the harvest. As well as Eating the Copple Apple (produced by Liverpool Arab Arts Festival).
luxx is currently writing their PhD in resistance literature, proposing a practical poetic for social movements. They also work as a lyricist with LA-based Maison Arts.
They are also a long-time transnational community organiser, having co-founded both eLaa Beirut and Nehna Hone. They were an organiser and spokesperson for the direct action network Palestine Action before it was prohibited as a terrorist organisation in the UK in 2025. They are a coordinator of the Filton25 Defence Committee, organising for those imprisoned by the British state for joining the struggle for Palestinian liberation.
Their name is decapitalised intentionally, to push back against the grammatology of the body politic; acknowledging that the colonial dominant literacy system is a way to force consent of the constitution onto policed populations. All marketing and publishing matter should follow suit.
“Her poems are sensitive and revolutionary – always kind, always fierce.”
— Dazed Magazine