World Poets' Tour 2005

  1. 12/10/2005

    'Found In Translation'

    by Richard Lea

    Richard Lea wrote this review of the World Poets' Tour Women's Night at the Brunei Gallery for the Guardian Culture Vulture blog.

  2. 15/10/2005

    'Unbroken Chain'

    by Kevin Rushby

    Kevin Rushby wrote this article for The Guardian after meeting the WPT poets from Sudan, Afghanistan and Somaliland.

  3. 25/10/2005

    'Literary and Literal Giants'

    by Susannah Tarbush

    Susannah Tarbush reported on our World Poets' Tour Men's Night reading at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS, on 13th October, 2005. The article was published in The Saudi Gazette.

  4. 23/05/2011

    The Adventures of 'Beauty'

    The Afghan poet, Partaw Naderi, was invited to take part in the PTC's first World Poets' Tour in 2005. In this article he writes about the excitment he felt at being invited to the UK and he reveals the true inspiration behind his poem, 'Beauty'.

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