Ep. 75 - English PEN (transcript available)

An episode of the Lunar Poetry Podcasts podcast, hosted by Lunar Poetry Podcasts, titled "Ep. 75 - English PEN (transcript available)" was published on July 31, 2016 and runs 44 minutes.

July 31, 2016 ·44m · Lunar Poetry Podcasts

Summary

Download a transcript of this conversation here: https://lunarpoetrypodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/ep75-english-pen-transcript.pdf June 2016. Paul McMenemy talks to Cat Lucas and Robert Sharp from English PEN about writers at risk. Includes readings of translations of poetry by Ashraf Fayadh and Liu Xia, as well as Andrew McMillan’s poem in response to Ashraf’s work, recorded at the Modern Literature Festival. (00:00:58) - Cat Lucas reads, 'A space in the void' by Ashraf Fayadh (trans. Jonathon Wright) (00:20:54) - Andrew McMillan reads, 'Week of living blasphemously' (00:42:53) - Paul McMenemy reads, 'June 2nd 1989' by Liu Xia (trans. Ming Di and Jennifer Stern) www.englishpen.org Writers in translation: http://worldbookshelf.englishpen.org/ PEN at the Ledbury Festival: https://www.englishpen.org/campaigns/english-pen-at-the-ledbury-poetry-festival-2016/ Modern Literature Festival videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/fowlerpoetry Poetry by Ashraf Fayadh in English: https://arablit.org/?s=Ashraf+Fayadh&x=0&y=0 Poetry by Liu Xia in English: https://pen.org/poetry/five-poems-liu-xia

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