Poetry international 2015

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Poetry International T HUR S DAY 23 – S unday 26 J uly 2015

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Saison Poetry Library

See the world as you’ve never seen it before, through the experiences, writing and philosophies of international poets, journalists and activists originating everywhere from the urban metropolises of New York, Kabul and London, to the mountainous regions of North Waziristan, Iraqi Kurdistan and Iran.

The Saison Poetry Library is the largest public collection of modern poetry in the world.

Explore The Saison Poetry Library throughout the festival, drop in to the installation on The Clore Ballroom floor or come along to the daily tours at 11am.

Southbank Centre’s biennial Poetry International festival is one of the oldest of its kind in the world. It was founded by Ted Hughes in 1967 and has placed both politics and poetry at its heart.

Find a special display of ghazals and landays and browse the collection of over 200 current poetry magazines.

It returns this year with talks, readings, films and innovative live performances. The packed line-up features music, translation, new commissions and free events.

Saison Poetry Library Tours Come to the library at 11am on each day of the festival for a special tour which also gives you a chance to explore ghazals and landays from the library’s collection.

Voices from across the globe meet, debate and offer their perspectives on a changing world. Conflict, war, censorship and shifting geo-political fault lines spark key discussions at the festival. Hear the incredible stories of two groups of Pashtun poets: Pakistan refugees who fled from the Taliban to renew their ancient craft and Afghan women who risk their lives to write poetry.

Read More Poetry Go to poetrymagazines.org.uk to read full text versions of poems on many of the themes of this year’s festival. Includes poems by Goran Simić, Tariq Latif and Amjad Nasser.

The festival features: Choman Hardi, Jo Shapcott, Warsan Shire, Eliza Griswold, Kei Miller, Imtiaz Dharker, Harriett Gilbert, Pascale Petit, Malika Booker, Aamir Iqbal, Ghareeb Iskander, Rafeef Ziadah, Paul Batchelor, Sasha Dugdale, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Sean Haefeli, Etta Ermini, Nick Makoha, Saleem Khan, Aviva Dautch, Dilawar Khan, Zahid Ullah Khan, Jasmine Cooray, Sahira Sharif, Mina Ibrahim Khil, Shkola Zadran, Stephen Watts, Hubert Moore, Ebrahim Golestan, Golan Haji, Adnan al-Sayegh, Shazea Qureshi, Zaffar Kunial,Sophie Herxheimer and Nasrin Parvaz.

Poetry On the Go Become a member of the library and download from a wide range of free eloans to your phone, computer and e-reader. Choose from many of this year’s festival poets including Kei Miller, Pascale Petit and Karen McCarthy Woolf. Membership of the library is free and open to everyone on proof of a UK address.

The Saison Poetry Library is based on Level 5 at Royal Festival Hall.

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Festival Curators, Southbank Centre

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Poetry International Rug Rhymes What rhymes with ?

Join Federico, Firebird and their animal friends for a very special Poetry International Rug Rhymes.

Come along to this short session of nursery rhymes, poems and rhyming stories for under-5s and learn songs and poems translated from Dari, Pashto, Hazaragi and Persian from Afghanistan and Pakistan, with the Saison Poetry Library puppets.

The Saison Poetry Library at Royal Festival Hall 10.30am – 11am Free

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Friday Lunch with MasterCard

Friday Tonic with MasterCard

Reem Kelani: From Darwish to Darwish

Sean Haefeli

Including UK premiere of Darwish: A Soldier Dreams of White Lilies T h u r s d ay 2 3 J u ly

Poetry International Launch Party Join us in the world’s largest collection of modern poetry for our exclusive festival launch party.

At this special after-hours event, hear featured poets from the festival preview their work alongside performances of their favourite poems from the library’s collection.

Enjoy refreshments as we get into the party mood among shelves of books that John Agard has described as ‘vessels of delight in which to dip’.

The ticket price includes one non-alcoholic or alcoholic drink.

Palestinian singer Reem Kelani is a captivating and inspirational purveyor of Arabic and Palestinian culture and music.

Her music criss-crosses the Mediterranean, ranging from songs by 20th-century Egyptian composer Sayyid Darwish to arrangements of songs sung by Palestinian refugees.

Darwish: A Soldier Dreams of White Lilies, is shot in collaboration with Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and directed by Torstein Blixfjord.

Sean Haefeli is an innovative pianist-vocalist and lyricist-composer, distinctively modern yet traditionally skilled. He represents a new breed, schooled in jazz, soul and hip-hop, able to execute with an emcee’s sense of flow, a crooner’s melodic sensibility, and a jazz pianist’s deft improvisations. With his most recent release RISE, Sean continues to explore this seamless interplay.

Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall 5.30pm – 6.30pm Free

Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall 1pm – 2pm Free

The Saison Poetry Library at Royal Festival Hall 8pm – 9.30pm £10*

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How to write Activist Poetry Workshop with Rafeef Ziadah Poetry can act as a vital form of resistance to a variety of social, political and ethical ills.

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Working with renowned Palestinian performance poet and human rights activist Rafeef Ziadah, this is your chance to look at examples of activist poetry and create some of your own.

‘Rafeef’s poetry demands to be heard.

She is powerful, emotional and political.’

(Ken Loach)

Sunley Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall 5.45pm – 7.15pm £20*

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How to write Poetry of Witness Workshop with Karen McCarthy Woolf Learn how to write poems that combine the personal with the political.

Through exercises and examples, this workshop aims to show you how to draw on both personal and collective experiences in your poetry. Understand how to write about the historical events that shape us in a way that will have greatest impact on the reader.

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The workshop is inspired by Carolyn Forché’s anthologies Against Forgetting and Poetry of Witness (co-edited with Duncan Wu).

Level 3 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall 6pm – 7.30pm £20* @litsouthbank #PoetryInternational

Poets on the Frontline Choman Hardi, Ghareeb Iskander and Kei Miller What insights can poets provide into violence and conflict?

Modern-day Iraq and Kurdistan have been repeatedly engulfed by war, yet both trace their heritage to ancient, culturally rich civilisations that arguably gave birth to poetry as we know it.

Poets Choman Hardi (from Iraqi Kurdistan) and Ghareeb Iskander (from Iraq) are reunited with UK-based Jamaican poet Kei Miller, who visited the Kurdistani capital Erbil for last year’s literary festival. Together, they offer poetic dispatches from the frontline and discuss the challenges of capturing conflict in verse.

Iraqi Kurdistan forms a quarter of Greater Kurdistan, a largely mountainous region which includes parts of Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq.

Following the first Gulf War, Iraqi Kurdistan emerged as an autonomous entity within Iraq.

In partnership with Shubbak and the British Council

Purcell Room at Royal Festival Hall 7.45pm – 9pm £10*

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How to Write Ghazals Workshop with Aviva Dautch

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For hundreds of years writers have experimented with the ghazal, a poetic form traditionally invoking themes of love, longing and loss, which is undergoing a renaissance in contemporary poetry. Originating in pre-Islamic Arabia, the ghazal spread into Africa and Spain where it was used to ask political and religious questions and, since the 13th century, it has been pre-eminent in Persian writing.

In this workshop we explore the history and development of the form and look at the key elements needed for writing our own ghazals.

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Introduction to Iranian Poetry Past and Present

Sunley Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall 11.15am – 1.15pm £20*

Learn about the rich and diverse tradition of Persian poetry.

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Poetry International Rug Rhymes

Around the World in 80 Poems

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Families are invited to join us in celebration of Southbank Centre’s Saison Poetry Library.

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The masters of Persian classical poetry, including Rumi, Ferdowsi, Hāfez and Khayyám, are well known in the West.

However, much of the poetry in this tradition has been neglected by translators.

For ages 5 and under.

The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall 11am – 11.30am Free

This event serves as an introduction to both traditional and contemporary Persian poetry. Join Ted Hodgkinson for a discussion with Stephen Watts that explores how poets have responded to the modernisation of Iran and translations of European poetry, creating new literary forms that renew the purpose and relevance of poetry in an ever-accelerating world.

Bring a favourite poem, story or saying from your home country, town or community, or write a new one with the help of our resident poets.

Then, work with artist and poet Sophie Herxheimer to create beautiful poetry pages to add to a brand new Poetry International book.

Suitable for all ages

The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall 12 noon – 4pm Free

Level 3 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall 11am – 12.30pm £10*

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12 noon– 1.15pm

3pm – 4.15pm

Poetry in Conflict: Talks Pass

Modern War Poetry

Free of the Taliban

Poetry has the ability to take the statistics of war and make them personal.

‘How could a poet who has very soft feelings for his land and people become a tool to spread terror?’

Take a fresh look at places that are constantly in the news because of conflict.

Voices from outside the US and UK describe their different experiences of conflict, including Syrian Kurdish poet, Golan Haji and Iraqi poet Adnan al-Sayegh.

The insights of their keenest observers and sharpest wordsmiths challenge how these countries and regions are depicted in the media. This afternoon of three talks tells the stories of poets and poetry from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.

Discover the war poets of today who are recording their experiences for future generations at great expense to themselves. Al-Sayegh’s uncompromising criticism of oppression and injustice, for example, has led to him being sentenced to death and forced into exile.

Chaired by Harriett Gilbert.

In partnership with English PEN

1.30pm – 2.45pm

Why Afghan Women Risk Their Lives to Write Poetry ‘I call. You’re stone.

One day you’ll look and find I’m gone.’

In Afghanistan, brave women gather in secret to recite and write landays – potent poems of war, grief, separation and love.

This talk brings together Afghan poets Shkola Zadran and Mina Ibrahim Khil, Sahira Sharif, the founder of the Mirman Baheer literary society in Kabul, and award-winning poet and investigative journalist Eliza Griswold, who shared their work and story in The New York Times.

‘A poem is a sword. It’s our form of resistance.’

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For more than five centuries, poets in remote north-western Pakistan recited verses about the area’s mountainous scenery, their tribal culture and love.

This tradition changed as Islamist militants tightened their hold on Pakistan’s tribal regions after the September 11 attacks. The Taliban and their allies targeted the poets, warning them not to write poetry that referred to women or serenity, and instead ordering them to compose jihadist messages of war, brutality and conformity.

Military attacks on the Islamists have displaced more than 700,000 Pakistanis from the North Waziristan region, including around 50 poets. Amid the chaos of refugee life, they are restoring tradition to their verses.

Hear from three of the poets, Saleem Khan, Zahid Ullah Khan and Dilawar Khan, plus the journalist, Aamir Iqbal, who first bought their story to the attention of the world.

Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall 12 noon – 4.15pm £15*

For ages 16+

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This performance contains sensitive content including descriptions and imagery of violence, war and conflict.

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Vulnerable and Fearless: How to Write about Violence

Close Reading: Paul Batchelor on translating Babak Khoshjan

Workshop with Warsan Shire Hubert Moore @ Darrie Payne

Discover how to write about violence and trauma in a way that is empowering.

Trauma has always been a catalyst for the creation of poetry. Whether it be the pain of loss, the sadness of love, or the horrors of war, poets have often journeyed through memories of difficult experiences.

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Together, Hubert Moore and Nasrin Parvaz translate the work of contemporary Iranian poets.

They have worked with a number of virtually unknown poets whose poems offer a different perspective of day-to-day life in Iran.

Poet Moore and translator Parvaz read selections of this work and discuss the challenge of translating less well-known poems. The afternoon is chaired by Sasha Dugdale, editor of Modern Poetry in Translation.

(Sabeer Haka, translated by Hubert Moore and Nasrin Parvaz, Modern Poetry in Translation: Scorched Glass. [ ] indicates censored word.)

Level 3 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall 2pm – 3.30pm £10*

How do different poets explore trauma in their work? How can you write about personal subjects and remain safe? This workshop helps you navigate through your own personal experiences using structured free writing and writing prompts.

Sunley Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall 4.45pm £5*

For ages 18+ This workshop contains adult content including descriptions of sexual violence and trauma.

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Sunley Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall 2.15pm – 4.15pm £20*

Close Reading: Hubert Moore and Nasrin Parvaz on translating Sabeer Haka

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Hubert Moore and Nasrin Parvaz are the translators of Sabeer Haka’s short poems.

Introduction to International Feminist Poetry Workshop with Shazea Qureshi Find out more about some of the most exciting feminist poets from around the world. Using poems translated from a variety of languages, get inspired to think and create new work.

Nasrin Parvaz

‘[God] is a worker too.

Welder of welders he must be.

In the evening light his eyes are red; at night his shirt is full of holes.’

Join the poem’s translator Paul Batchelor and Modern Poetry in Translation editor Sasha Dugdale for a close reading of the poem.

Hear how Paul worked on the poem with his co-translator Alireza Taheri Araghi and learn about the choices a translator makes in order to bring a poem across into English.

Paul Batchelor

Out of the Shadows: Translating Unknown Iranian Poets

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‘So That Minotaur’ is a modernist poem about conflict by Babak Khoshjan.

Join them for a close reading of their translations and learn more about their working method and how translating in a pair can yield exciting results.

Sunley Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall 5.30pm £5*

Level 3 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall 4.30pm – 6.30pm £20*

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Mushaira A poetic symposium

Ziba Karbassi

Our guests from Pakistan fled the controls of the Taliban and censorship of their poetry to return to the poetry of nature and the mountains that they hold dear. With traditional Pakistani music, and the passing of a candle, join us on The Clore Ballroom floor to weave together the Pashto language, contemporary British poetry and music.

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Using a way of presenting poetry that is very popular in Pakistan, Pashto-speaking poets from the country, Saleem Khan, Zahid Ullah Khan and Dilawar Khan join poet, artist and documentary film-maker Imtiaz Dharker, award-winning poets Jo Shapcott and Zaffar Kunial for a very special evening.

Suitable for all ages

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The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall 6pm – 7.30pm Free

Scorched Glass

Re:Play

An evening of modern Iranian poetry

Catch the early incarnations of provocative new work that pushes boundaries from artists Ria Hartley, Gael Le Cornec, Afshan Lodhi, Lucy Sheen and Yomi Sode.

Leading Iranian and UK poets come together to read poems from the magazine Modern Poetry in Translation.

Stephen Watts reads work by Ziba Karbassi, Esmail Khoi and Reza Baraheni, while other guests include Paul Batchelor, Karen McCarthy Woolf and Pascale Petit, all of whom have been involved in a project to translate modern Iranian poetry.

London-based Iranian poet Ziba Karbassi also joins the evening to read her work, which has been compared to the poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva. Karbassi gained attention with her poem ‘Sangsar’, (‘Death

By Stoning’), written in her early twenties.

‘I know of very few poets worldwide whose lyric intensity matches hers or whose language is as honest to terror and to love.’

(Stephen Watts) In partnership with Modern Poetry in Translation and the British Council

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Fully staged excerpts from five new pieces of work are making their debut at Poetry International, exploring issues including women’s rights in UK detention centres, migration and identity, and transracial adoption.

The pieces have been created by participants in Re:Play, a new programme that supports minority ethnic writerperformers as they create a one-person performance that deals with a critical social issue. Produced by 2012 Poetry Parnassus delegate, Nick Makoha and award-winning company Nimble Fish, Re:Play aims to expand poetry to include elements of theatre and live art.

Re:Play is funded by Arts Council England and supported by Southbank Centre.

Spirit Level (Blue Room) at Royal Festival Hall 8pm – 9.30pm £8*

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How to write Landays

Poetry International Think-in

Workshop with Eliza Griswold Landays are a form of feminist folk poetry, sometimes similar to bawdy narratives like those in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales.

2017 will be the 50th anniversary of Poetry International festival. We’d like to invite you to come to the very first session to plan the next festival with us.

‘Landay’ translates as ‘snake’ and these are short, sharp, biting verses written by women, or from the perspective of women.

Sunley Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall 11am – 1pm £20*

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Discover a new poetic form, write some poems of your own and learn more from Eliza Griswold, translator and editor of I am the Beggar of the World, a collection of reportage and Afghan poetry.

What should Poetry International 2017 and beyond be about? What would you like to see represented, how can we improve on this year’s festival and what in your opinion are the most relevant topics for international poetry today?

Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall 12 noon – 2pm Free but ticketed

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Introduction to Pashto Literature & Language

Between the Lines A poetry and censorship workshop for 14 – 18 year olds

Round-table discussion and translation workshop

For ages 14 – 18 Yemisi Blake

Pashto poetry has a uniquely rich and longstanding tradition. Join poet and journalist Aamir Iqbal for this opportunity to find out about one of the most simple but beautiful kinds of poetry. Discover how Pashtun poets living in the mountains define love, peace and harmony. Learn about the different Pashto dialects, create new poems based on literal translations and gain knowledge of this mesmerising language.

Writer and photographer Yemisi Blake leads this workshop where participants use creative writing and photography to explore themes of censorship, speaking out and to discover what can be said between the lines.

Sunley Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall 1.30pm – 3.30pm £5*

Level 3 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall 12 noon – 1.30pm £10*

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Sex in the Afternoon With Kei Miller, Malika Booker, Warsan Shire and Rachel Mars Join prominent poets for an afternoon of poetry, prose and conversation exploring sex in all its pain and glory.

Forugh Farrokhzad

These four acclaimed writers present their poetry and prose exploring and exposing sex in all its glory and complexity, before an open and frank Q&A session with historian of sexuality Dr Jana Funke. How can we express our desires? What stops us?

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Moving Words: Dance and Poetry

The House is Black & Forugh Farrokhzad

Curated and produced by People Brands Events as part of the Wellcome Collection’s Sexology Season With special thanks to Apples and Snakes, Free Word and Spread the Word

With Etta Ermini

Screening and discussion

Moving Words is a playful method of learning languages through creative movement, created and delivered by Etta Ermini and Soo Wright. Join them on The Clore Ballroom floor as they use Pashto language and poetry as a stimulus for dance and movement. Etta is also the artistic director of London-based physical theatre company Etta Ermini Dance Theatre.

Watch and discuss the most devastating and poetic film to emerge from prerevolutionary Iran.

Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall 3pm – 4.30pm £12*

All ages welcome

The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall 2pm – 3pm Free

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Join Forward Prize-winner Kei Miller, inaugural Royal Shakespeare Company Poet-in-Residence Malika Booker, African Poetry Prize-winner and first Young Poet for London Warsan Shire, plus performance maker and curator Rachel Mars for a literary treat.

For ages 16+

Iconic Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad made her documentary about a leper colony for Ebrahim Golestan’s film company in 1963. It has impressed and moved audiences ever since, and paved the way for Iranian New Wave cinema.

After the screening, Aras Khatami leads a discussion of this landmark film with Ebrahim Golestan.

For ages 18+

Spirit Level (Blue Room) at Royal Festival Hall 3pm – 4.30pm £10*

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Poetry International Book Club

My Voice : A Decade of Poems from the Poetry Translation Centre Join staff from The Saison Poetry Library for a discussion of poems from My Voice.

For many immigrant communities within the UK, poetry is of overwhelming importance.

The anthology My Voice: A Decade of Poems from the Poetry Translation Centre – which was launched at last year’s Poetry International festival – compiles English translations of this poetry by leading poets.

This discussion considers the poems in light of the translators’ comments on their process, which are published as essays at the back of the book.

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I Was Your Daughter: Poetry in Her Name The Mirman Baheer literary society is a group of Afghan women poets based in Kabul.

Please note, this free event requires a ticket. Please book your ticket by emailing specialedition@poetrylibrary.org.uk

Level 3 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall 4.30pm – 6.30pm Free but ticketed

‘My Voice offers us a vision of what poetry can be, bending the English language into different shapes and directions... It is essential reading’ (Chrissy Williams, Poetry London)

Rural members of the group often write in secret, presenting their poems anonymously in fear of what exposure could lead to.

I Was Your Daughter honours the bravery of these poets using landays, an Afghan form of spoken word that allows poems to travel freely between writers and communities.

Award-winning poet and investigative journalist Eliza Griswold is joined by poets Mina Ibrahim Khil, Shkola Zadran, Jasmine Cooray, Rafeef Ziadah, Director of the Mirman Baheer literary society Sahira Sharif and a group of emerging poets to give readings.

Plus, we show Seamus Murphy’s poetic documentary film Snake, made as he and Eliza Griswold searched for landays across Afghanistan.

Suitable for all ages

British Council for all its incredible support, knowledge and ideas.

Modern Poetry in Translation magazine, the official and treasured magazine partner of Poetry International. Here’s to its 50th Anniversary.

Wellcome Collection for an amazing partnership and event.

Shubbak festival for Poets on the Frontline.

The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall 3.30pm – 5.30pm Free

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Poetry International Launch Party

8pm – 9.30pm

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10.30am – 11am

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Friday Tonic with MasterCard Sean Haefeli

5.30pm – 6.30pm

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How to write Activist Poetry Workshop with Rafeef Ziadah

5.45pm – 7.15pm

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How to write Poetry of Witness Workshop with Karen McCarthy Woolf

6pm – 7.30pm

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Poets on the Frontline Choman Hardi, Ghareeb Iskander and Kei Miller

7.45pm – 9pm

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Poetry International Rug Rhymes Saison Poetry Library Tour Friday Lunch with MasterCard Reem Kelani: From Darwish to Darwish

Out of the Shadows: Translating Unknown Iranian Poets

2pm – 3.30pm

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Vulnerable and Fearless: How to write about Violence Workshop with Warsan Shire

2.15pm – 4.15pm

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Introduction to International Feminist Poetry Workshop with Shazea Qureshi

4.30pm – 6.30pm

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Close Reading Paul Batchelor on translating Babak Khoshjan

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Close Reading 5.30pm p.13 Hubert Moore and Nasrin Parvaz on translating Sabeer Haka 11am p.2  Mushaira 6pm – 7.30pm p.14  1pm – 2pm p.5  A poetic symposium Scorched Glass An evening of modern Iranian poetry

7pm – 8.30pm

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Re:Play

8pm – 9.30pm

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11am – 1pm

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How to write Landays Workshop with Eliza Griswold

 Saison Poetry Library Tour 11am p.2 p.16

12 noon – 2pm

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Between the Lines A poetry and censorship workshop for 14 – 18 year olds

1.30pm – 3.30pm

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Moving Words Dance and poetry with Etta Ermini

2pm – 3pm

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The House is Black & Forugh Farrokhzad Screening and discussion

3pm – 4.30pm

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Sex in the Afternoon With Kei Miller, Malika Booker, Warsan Shire and Rachel Mars

3pm – 4.30pm

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I Was Your Daughter: Poetry in Her Name

3.30pm – 5.30pm

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Poetry International Book Club My Voice : A Decade of Poems from the Poetry Translation Centre

4.30pm – 6.30pm

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Saison Poetry Library Tour

Poetry International Think-in 11am p.2 

Introduction to Iranian Poetry Past and Present

11am – 12.30pm

How to write Ghazals Workshop with Aviva Dautch

11.15am – 1.15pm

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Poetry International Rug Rhymes What rhymes with ?

11am – 11.30am

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Around the World in 80 Poems

12 noon – 4pm

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Poetry in Conflict: Talks Pass Modern War Poetry Why Afghan Women Risk Their Lives to Write Poetry Free of the Taliban

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12 noon – 1.30pm

Introduction to Pashto Literature & Language Round-table discussion and translation workshop

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Southbank Centre is accessible to all and a range of assistance is available to our visitors. Please contact us for further information and to receive publications in alternative formats: Email: accesslist@southbankcentre.co.uk Phone: 0844 847 9910 Please see southbankcentre.co.uk/access for further details.

All listings correct at time of going to press Southbank Centre is a Charity Registered in England and Wales number 298909