Month: October 2014
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Remembrance, Poetry and Music at Trinity College Wednesday 5th November 2014
From l-r Yaron Stavi, double bassist with the Nigel Kennedy Orchestra, Adnan Al-Sayegh, Iraqi poet, Jenny Lewis, Nico Hobhouse, organiser of the event for Student PEN Oxford and John Greening, fellow Carcanet Poet. Here’s the poster for Wednesday 5th November 2014. John Greening, Adnan Al-Sayegh and I will be performing in a programme of Remembrance, Poetry…
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Singing for Inanna Praise Poem workshop at Keats House, 4th October 2014
We had a wonderful time discussing the 2,300 BC poet Enheduanna and tracing her influence on Arabic poetry through Andalusian troubadour poetry to Keats’ odes and the present day. We wrote some poems about things we loved and made an MP3 recording of highlights, beautifully accompanied by Patricia de Mayo on her oud. We are…
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Singing for Inanna book and CD launch at Keats House, 25th September 2014
The culmination of our amazing Writing Mesopotamia project came on 25th September with the launch of our Singing for Inanna book of poems in English and Arabic by myself and the Iraqi poet Adnan Al-Sayegh with translations by Ruba Abughaida and ourselves and a CD of recorded poetry by Adnan and myself with specially composed oud…
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