It is no easy task to write about the poetry of Thurayya Al-Baqsami, it constituting no mean challenge. Thurayya has been writing poetry almost since childhood. During her period of study in Moscow she even wrote poetry in Russian, and upon returning to Kuwait she had her own poetry column entitled Nuqush (Sketches) within the pages of the ‘Al-Watan’ newspaper. Since 1994 she has published her texts in the journal ‘Al-Qabas’ in a column entitled Nusus wa risha (Texts and Brush). She herself illustrates her poetry with drawings. The verse that is found in the daily press is hugely popular because of its specific and symbolic vision of feelings and human desires as well as for the criticism of Kuwaiti and Arab society that it contains.

Thurayya Al-Baqsami, so it appears, has yet to develop a definite attitude towards the phenomenon of her own poetical creativity. These works can be neither considered poetry nor prose. The matter is left open for the reader. It seems that they are works written in poetical prose in which one may perceive the beauty of poetic language, while the author herself feels herself a poet. Thurayya writes as such in the forewords to her first volume of poetry published in Kuwait in 1999 and entitled Fikaffi ‘usfura zarqa’ (The Blue Sparrow on My Palm):