Comedy

Poetry Club: Tishani Doshi, Asmaa Azaizeh & Isabelle Baafi

Thu 4 Jun The Coronet Theatre

You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience. Safari users if you experience issues with booking, please see help & assistance June’s edition of Poetry Club is an evening of readings from three compelling voices in contemporary poetry: Tishani Doshi , Asmaa Azaizeh and Isabelle Baafi . Moving between questions of conflict, identity and belonging, intimate histories and acts of personal transformation, their work explores how language bears witness to the pressures of our time. Doshi will read from her new collection Egrets, While War , Azaizeh will present recent unpublished poems in Arabic with English translations read by Doshi, and Baafi will read from her award-winning debut collection Chaotic Good . In Tishani Doshi ‘s Egrets, While War , birds become messengers and witnesses, from mythic creatures of ancient epics to the everyday city pigeon, navigating environmental loss, ancestral memory, ageing, and the devastations of war. With lyric precision and emotional breadth, Doshi’s poems turn intimacy into a form of radical presence, offering a meditation on survival, of species, history, and the heart. Palestinian poet Asmaa Azaizeh...