{"id":14363,"date":"2016-04-06T08:18:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T12:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=14363"},"modified":"2016-04-06T08:18:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T12:18:42","slug":"special-issue-of-refugee-poetry-mpt-launches-the-great-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/special-issue-of-refugee-poetry-mpt-launches-the-great-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Issue of Refugee Poetry, MPT Launches \u2018The Great\u00a0Flight\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

via Arab Literature (in English) &BY MLYNXQUALEY<\/a><\/span><\/span> on<\/em> 0<\/a> )<\/span><\/p>\n

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On Wednesday, April 13 at London\u2019s Southbank Centre will host the launch of \u201cThe Great Flight<\/a>,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Modern Poetry in Translation\u2019s\u00a0refugee-focussed issue, ed. Sasha Dugdale:<\/em><\/p>\n

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Image from the Southbank Centre.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The free event, which is set to begin at\u00a08pm<\/a>, will feature performances by Syrian poet Golan Haji, civil rights activist and writer Nasrin Parvaz, and translator-poet Stephen Watts. You can hear \u201creadings of Golan\u2019s poetry in Arabic and in superb new English translations by Stephen Watts, followed by a discussion on issues of identity, dislocation and discrimination with Nasrin.\u201d<\/p>\n

The issue also\u00a0includes work by five Assyrian Iraqi poets, the great Algerian poet-translator-scholar Habib Tengour, and Algerian poet and novelist\u00a0Mohammed Dib.<\/p>\n

Poems by Golan Haji:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Four\u00a0\u00a0poems,\u00a0<\/a>trans.\u00a0Lauren Pyott<\/p>\n

Autumn Here is Magical and Vast<\/a>, trans Stephen Watts<\/p>\n

Poems by Habib Tengour:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Crossing<\/a>, trans. Marilyn Hacker<\/p>\n

Seven poems<\/a>, trans. Pierre Joris<\/p>\n

Poems by Mohammed Dib:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fifteen poems<\/a>, translator uncredited<\/p>\n

Also:\u00a0<\/strong>Madeleine Campbell on Translating Mohammed Dib Through \u2018Sound, Gesture, Movement and Sculpture\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

More meditations\u00a0on\u00a0exile:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sargon Boulus:\u00a0\u201cA Refugee Tells\u201d<\/a>\u00a0(trans. Youssef Rakha and\u00a0Kees Nijland)<\/p>\n

Dara Abdallah:\u00a014 Poems<\/a> (trans. Mona Kareem)<\/p>\n

Ashraf Fayadh:\u00a0\u2018The Last of the Line of Refugee Descendants\u2019<\/a>\u00a0(trans. Jonathan Wright)<\/p>\n

Hassan Blasim: \u201cA Refugee in the Paradise That is Europe\u201d<\/a>\u00a0(trans. Jonathan Wright)<\/p>\n

Osama Esber: \u201c<\/a>Exile is Born at This Moment\u201d<\/a>\u00a0(trans. Esber)<\/p>\n

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