As part of the Deptford Literature Festival, we present a dual-language reading by two award-winning poets: Kurdish author Bejan Matur and Jen Hadfield from the UK.

Join us for an evening of poetry, music and discussion inspired by ideas of nomadic existence, having many places that you call home and how different landscapes shape the art that you create.

Join Kurdish poet Bejan Matur and her poet-translator Jen Hadfield for a dual-language poetry reading in Turkish and English at the StAnza Poetry Festival.

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.