Month: March 2014
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Review of Taking Mesopotamia by Gareth Prior
Here’s a lovely piece about Taking Mesopotamia: http://garethprior.org/folding-time-jenny-lewis/
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Stanza Festival- St Andrews
After the ‘Victims of a Map’ seminar and reception at Kellogg College, I scooted off to Oxford station to catch the train to Paddington – Euston – night sleeper to Edinburgh- morning train to Leuchars- taxi to St Andrews where the StAnza Festival is held. I just about had time to change and have a […]
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Victims of a Map’ seminar, Kellogg College, Oxford, Tuesday 4 March 2014.
With Adnan al Sayegh and Taj Kandoura (interpreter). The seminar went very well – looking at Iraq and the poetry and literature that shaped it from pre-Islamic poetry until the present day. We read for the first time my translations (with Ruba Abughaida) of extracts from Adnan’s 500-page poem – Uruk’s Anthem and some of […]
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‘Writing Mesopotamia’ at the Pegasus Theatre – 27th March
ADNAN AL SAYEGH, TARIK BESHIR, STEPHEN WATTS AND JENNY LEWIS WITH EMERGING OXFORDSHIRE POETS 7.00-8.15pm: Thursday 27 March: Tickets £3 PEGASUS THEATRE STUDIO Pegasus Theatre, Magdalen Road, Oxford OX4 1RE Arabic themed show with new poetry and translations by leading Iraqi poet Adnan al Sayegh, British poets Stephen Watts and Jenny Lewis and emerging Oxfordshire voices […]
Jenny Lewis 