Kurdish poet Bejan Matur and her poet-translator Jen Hadfield are headlining Neu! Reekie! Tongue & Groove, a delicious feast of spoken word, music, animation and film fusion.

The Poetry Translation Centre will be at this year’s Free Verse: Poetry Book Fair, taking place at the Conway Hall, London. The Poetry Book Fair will offer a wide array of performances and will give space for various exhibitors, booksellers, publishers and so much more.

Join us for an electrifying hour of poetry in Kurdish, Turkish and English, by a pair of poets whose work explores the language of landscape and of home. The reading will be followed by a Q&A.

An electrifying hour of poetry in Kurdish, Turkish and English exploring the language of landscape and of home with Kurdish poet Bejan Matur and award winning UK poet Jen Hadfield.

What does it mean to write about home? Poet and editor Anna Selby is joined by Bejan Matur, Jen Hadfield and Canan Marasligil for an evening of discussion and poetry.

See all our Summer Tour poets together: Bejan Matur and Karin Karakaşlı read their work alongside bridge translator Canan Marasligil and poet translators Jen Hadfield and Sarah Howe.