Artists featured at the Aga Khan Centre’s Canticle of the Birds exhibition, inspired by a 12th-century poem, draw on both traditional and contemporary forms to create something new and beautiful.
In this poetry workshop, participants will write in a new 21st-century form, the duplex, created by Jerico Brown, a form that is rooted in the 7th-century ghazal and 13th-century sonnet. We will use traditional art formats to collapse and expand time, while also thinking about the thin line between art and poetry.
April Yee is a writer and critic whose poetry, fiction, and essays have been named Best of the Net, two-time The Best American Essays Notable, and winner of the Manchester Fiction Prize and Ivan Juritz Prize. She has served as The Georgia Review’s editor-in-residence, Refugee Journalism Project mentor, and trustee at Spread the Word.
Lovers of words in all languages welcome.
The Poetry Translation Centre is the only UK organisation dedicated to translating and promoting contemporary poetry from Africa, Asia and Latin America. They publish books, organise events and deliver hands-on translation workshops that are open and inclusive to all. They also offer online resources including a dual-language poetry podcast and an extensive web archive of poems in translation.
The Aga Khan Centre in London’s King’s Cross is a place for education, knowledge, cultural exchange and insight into Muslim civilisations. The organisations that are located here work together to bridge the gap in understanding about Muslim cultures and to connect the public to global development issues. The Aga Khan Centre hosts a variety of events, exhibitions and talks that are open to the public.
Canticle of the Birds is a mixed-media exhibition inspired by the Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar, bringing together artists from the UK and beyond with artisans and young people in creative collaboration.
