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After a year
of bloodshed, come and hear one of the most widely read poets
in the Arab world, the distinguished Iraqi poet Saadi Yousef.
Saadi brings a true Iraqi voice beyond the shrill clichés
which have recently assailed us.
Following his imprisonment by Saddam Hussein, he has spent
most of his life in exile, working as a journalist throughout
North Africa and the Middle East and London. His poetry documents
that journey in an original, intimate style.
Known for the power of his poetry as well as his commitment
to fighting for the democratization and modernization of Iraq,
Saadi Yousef is one of the most important contemporary poets
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Sarah Maguire,
Director of School of Oriental and African Studies at the
University of London, is herself an award-winning poet and
a leading translator of Arabic poetry.
Sarah has published three highly-acclaimed collections of
poems, Spilt Milk (Secker, 1991) The Invisible Mender (Jonathan
Cape, 1997) and The Florist’s at Midnight (Jonathan
Cape, 2001). Her anthology Flora Poetica: The Chatto Book
of Botanical Verse was published to outstanding reviews. in
November 2001.
Tickets £3 available at the door.
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