POETRY EVENT: STATE OF EMERGENCY

Organisation: Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX

Time: 08 November 2011 7:45pm - 9:30pm

Place: Level 5 Function Room, Southbank Centre

 Southbank Centre Presents:

STATE OF EMERGENCY

A unique opportunity to hear three poets from Algeria, Albania and Jordan read from and discuss their poetry. Luljeta Lleshanaku is regarded as the leading lyric poet in Albania. She grew up under house arrest and until the early 1990s was not allowed to attend university or publish her poems. Her new collection Haywire is a Poetry Book Society recommendation. Soleïman Adel Guémar's poetry sings of life's pleasures in the face of violent political oppression. Jordanian poet Amjad Nasser's Shepherd of Solitude - Selected Poems is his first collection in English. He co-founded the Al-Quds Al-Arabi daily newspaper, has published six collections of poetry and his poems have been translated into French, Italian, Spanish and German.

In association with The Poetry Trust.

8 November 2011, 7:45pm

Level 5 Function Room
Southbank Centre
Belvedere Road
London SE1 8XX

Tickets: £8 | Book online or call 0844 8750073
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