FAWZI KARIM: PLAGUE LANDS

Organisation: The Mosaic Rooms

Time: 14 April 2011 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Place: The Mosaic Rooms, 226 Cromwell Road, London SW5

The Mosaic Rooms Presents:

FAWZI KARIM

PLAGUE LANDS

Born in Baghdad in 1945, now living in London, Fawzi Karim is one of the most compelling voices of the exiled generation of Iraqi writers. In the first collection of his poetry to appear in English, his long sequence ‘Plague Lands’ is an elegy for the life of a lost city, a chronicle of a journey into exile, haunted by the deep history of an ancient civilisation. Memories of Baghdad’s smoke-filled cafés, its alleys and mulberry-shaded squares, ‘the tang of tea, of coffee beans…arak, napthalene, damp straw mats’, are recalled with painful intensity. Karim’s defiant humanity, rejecting dogma and polemic, makes him a necessary poet for fractured times.

Thursday 14 April 2011 | 18:30-20:00

The Mosaic Rooms
A.M. Qattan Foundation
226 Cromwell Road
London
SW5 0SW

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