Despite foul weather and a tube strike, this was a wonderful evening of poetry from Afghanistan by Reza Mohammadi and Shakila Azizzada with music by the Yusuf Mahmoud Afghani Music Ensemble at Leighton House, one of London’s most beautiful buildings.
Leighton House
12 Holland Park Road
London
W14 8LZ
Azita Ghahreman, Reza Mohammadi and Shakila Azizzada read alongside their UK poet-translators, Maura Dooley, Nick Laird and Mimi Khalvati at a Saturday afternoon reading at Cardiff Central Library.
Cardiff Central Library
John Street
Cardiff
CF10 5BA
Back by popular demand, the first event of our Persian Poets’ Tour of 2013 sees all three poets read alongside their poet-translators at the Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester.
International Anthony Burgess Foundation
Engine House Chorlton Mill
3 Cambridge Street
Manchester
M1 5BY
One of the final events of Poetry Parnassus was a PTC Celebration Reading featuring Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, David Shook, Jo Shapcott, Mimi Khalvati, Reza Mohammadi, Ribka Sibhatu and Clare Pollard.
The Clore Ballroom
Royal Festival Hall
Belvedere Road
London
SE1 8XX
An enthusiastic, capacity audience heard two leading Afghan poets, Shakila Azizzada and Reza Mohammadi, read alongside their poet-translators, Mimi Khalvati and Nick Laird, while Sarah Maguire read her translations of Partaw Naderi’s poems.
Norfolk & Norwich Millennium Library
The Forum
Millennium Plain
Norwich
NR2 1AW
The culmination of our fabulous Persian Poets’ Tour was this Gala Reading at London’s Rich Mix featured the poetry of all five Persian Poets read by their five British poet-translators.
Reza Mohammadi, Azita Ghahreman and Shakila Azizzada read at The Wordsworth Trust with British poets, Nick Laird, Mimi Khalvati and Jo Shapcott, who read her translations of Farzaneh Khojandi.
Two distinguished Persian poets, Shakila Azizzada and Azita Ghahreman, read with poet-translators, Mimi Khalvati and Sarah Maguire at the University of Birmingham
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TS
The Gala Reading at the British Library was an unprecdented literary event featuring the poems of six international poets read in translation by six leading British poets.
The British Library
96, Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB