EPISODE · Jun 24, 2024 · 32 MIN
Two poems, four years in detention: the Chinese dissident who smuggled his writing out of prison
from The Audio Long Read · host The Guardian
My poems were written in anger after Tiananmen Square. But what motivates most prison writing is a fear of forgetting. Today I am free, but the regime has never stopped its war on words. By Liao Yiwu. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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