Tag: Ashmolean museum
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Launch of ‘The Land Between’
Sunday 1 December – launch of The Land Between – an anthology of poems by participants of the spring 2013 ‘Writing Mesopotamia’ workshops at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, to be held at the Ashmolean Museum and afterwards at the Albion Beatnik Bookstore. Led by Adnan al Sayegh and Jenny Lewis. The Land Between contains poems by 27 poets…
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The first ‘Writing Mesopotamia’ reading at the Ashmolean
The first reading of the ‘Writing Mesopotamia’ programme at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, took place yesterday (Sunday 17 March). Heavy snow from about 9.00am until 11.30am gave us a bit of a scare and we thought we might have to cancel it, but luckily, it eased up and the Ancient Near East Gallery rang to…
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Ashmolean Museum – Writing Mesopotamia
Writing Mesopotamia is an exciting series of readings and creative writing workshops from The Poet’s House, Oxford to mark the 10th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War in March-April 2003. Renowned Iraqi poet Adnan al Sayegh and Oxford-based poet Jenny Lewis will read their own poems together in English, some with Arabic translations, exploring…
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