Catastrophe (Paperback)

Martin Orwin

ISBN 10: 0957551169 / ISBN 13: 9780957551169

Verlag: The Poetry Translation Centre, London, 2017

Beschreibung

Paperback. Catastrophe is an electrifying poem by the Somali poet Xasan Daahir Ismaaciil Weedhsame. A howl of anguish about the displacement of the Somali people, it offers a provocation to western Europe, unable to hold focus on the devastating refugee crisis playing out on our shores, and a message of hope to all who have had to flee their homes to seek sanctuary across the sea.The Poetry Translation Centre have published Catastrophe as a dual-language poem-poster, including a dazzling English translation by Martin Orwin working with British poet Daljit Nagra. The poster features a specially commissioned illustration by the artist Bryan Talbot.Limited Edition of 500 numbered copies. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780957551169

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Catastrophe (Paperback)
• Verlag: The Poetry Translation Centre, London
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0957551169
• ISBN-13: 9780957551169
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: new

Über diesen Titel

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Xasan Daahir Ismaaciil ‘Weedhsame’ is widely regarded as one of the most promising young Somali poets of his generation. Thanks to his close relationship with leading poet Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac 'Gaarriye', Weedhsame is steeped in the long and complex history of Somali poetry and, as a notably gifted practitioner, is committed to continuing its traditions.

Weedhsame was born in Kalabaydh to the west of Hargeysa in 1982. At the age of six, he and his family were forced to flee to the Dul-cad refugee camp in Ethiopia as a result of the bombing campaign launched by the Somali dictator, Siad Barre. Once Barre had been overthrown, Weedhsame and his family returned home in 1992 and he was able to begin his education which led to him graduating from the University of Cammuud with a BSc in Mathematics.

Weedhsame began composing poetry when he was 16 years old. In 2001 he won first prize in a poetry competition organised by the Academy for Peace and Development. To date, he has composed 67 poems and 40 songs, all of which have been widely broadcast via Somali media.

In 2000 Weedhsame met Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac 'Gaarriye' for the first time and they immediately became close, with Gaarriye acting as his mentor and teacher. Gaarriye not only encouraged Weehsame's poetry, but for the younger poet, their relationship proved to be an invaluable induction into the complexities of Somali metrics from the person who had been the first to analyse and categorise its structures.

Weedhsame now teaches the course on literature that Gaarriye once taught at the University of Hargeysa and he also works for the National Office for Examinations.

Martin Orwin was born in 1963. He studied Arabic and Amharic as an undergraduate at SOAS and he then went on to obtain a PhD in the phonology of Somali.

Currently Senior Lecturer in Somali and Amharic at SOAS, he has taught there since 1992.

Daljit Nagra is from a Sikh background and was born and grew up in West London then Sheffield. He has published three collections of poetry all with Faber & Faber.

His poem Look We Have Coming to Dover! won the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem in 2004. His first collection, of the same name, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2007 and the South Bank Show Decibel Award in 2008. His subsequent two collections, Tippoo Sultan’s Incredible White-Man Eating Tiger-Toy Machine!!! and his version of the Ramayana were nominated for the TS Eliot Prize. In 2014 he was selected as a New Generation Poet by the PBS. In 2015 he won a Royal Society Travelling Scholarship.

He is the inaugural Poet in Residence for Radio 4/4 Extra and he teaches at Brunel University London.

He has judged The Samuel Johnson Prize, The Costa Prize and the David Cohen Prize. His poems have been published in The New Yorker, Poetry Chicago, The LRB, The TLS and The New Statesman. He has written for The Guardian, The FT and he has performed in Canada, India, Mexico, Slovakia, The Netherlands.