This Prisoner Breathes by Noshi Gillani
This week’s podcast is ‘This Prisoner Breathes’ by Noshi Gillani from Pakistan. The poem is read first in English translation by Lavinia Greenlaw and then in Urdu by UK author Kamila Shamsie.
Podcasts
A Feather by Shakila Azizzada
Huerta’s poems frequently turn on images that are experiences in themselves. In this eerie piece, he describes a poem by Gottfried Benn. Translated by Tom Boll and Katherine Pierpoint.
Birds by Kajal Ahmad
Kajal Ahmad from Kurdistan writes poems with a fable-like quality of the poems. ‘Birds’ is read first in English translation by Mimi Khalvati and then in Kurdish by Kajal Ahmad.
When Morning Breaks by Corsino Fortes
Corsino Fortes’s began writing in the dying days of colonial rule, and he uses his work to reclaim, almost to recreate, his newly reborn country. Translated by Sean O’Brien and Daniel Hahn.
Poem by Gottfried Benn by David Huerta
Huerta’s poems frequently turn on images that are experiences in themselves. In this eerie piece, he describes a poem by Gottfried Benn. Translated by Tom Boll and Katherine Pierpoint.
Of Their Eyes Adorned with Crystal Sands by Coral Bracho
Perhaps the most enigmatic and suggestive titled poem in the PTC Archive: Of Their Eyes Adorned with Crystal Sands by Coral Bracho was translated by Tom Boll and Katherine Pierpoint.
Never Forget! by Saado Cabdi Amarre
Saado Cabdi Amarre is a poet whose emotional verse laments the senselessness of the successive civil wars that have affected Somaliland in the aftermath of its secession.
Pregnancy by Kajal Ahmad
As Louise Glück says, women poets must have the courage not always to affirm life! This week’s poem is by Kajal Ahmad from Kurdistan. The poem is read in English and Kurdish.
To Love by Reza Mohammadi
“Rather than trying to tame or domesticate Reza’s poems into western ideas of neatness, I should just try to present them in a language that allowed their strength to come through.”
My Mother’s Language by Abdellatif Laâbi
Listen to this agonised poem about a mother-son relationship: ‘My Mother’s Language’ by Moroccan poet Abdellatif Laâbi, translated from the french by Andre Naffis-Sahely.
The Lonely Earth by Kajal Ahmad
Listen ‘The Lonely Earth’ by Kajal Ahmad, translated by Mimi Khalvati and Choman Hardi and read about the translators’ attempts to tame Kajal’s wild, weird and illogical metaphors.
He Tells Tales of Meroe by Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi
Listen to ‘He Tells Tails of Meroe’ by Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi translated by Sarah Maguire & Rashid El Sheik, from his collection to responding to the Petrie Museum Collection.
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