This week’s poem is ‘Recollection’ by the Somali poet Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf. The poem is read first in English translation by Clare Pollard and then in Somali by Caasha herself.
Last year The Sea-Migrations by Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf, translated from Somali by Clare Pollard with Maxamed Xasan ‘Alto’ and Said Jama Hussein, was been named the Poetry Book of the Year by The Sunday Times.
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