Exiled Lit Cafe East

Contact: www.exiledwriters.co.uk, www.railroadhackney.co.uk/word/

Food for the spirit and the body - eat beforehand if you wish!

We are hoping this will become a regular monthly event.
The concept is a mix and a dialogue between the lived and imagined experience, to include poets/writers who are displaced in some way and write on themes of exile, or translate the work of others, even if they are not themselves exiles or refugees.

Launch event: The Night of Exiled Writers, with:

Aydin Mehmet-Ali was born in Cyprus. She is an award-winning author and her short stories have appeared in various anthologies and journals, including Silver Throat of the Moon: Writing in Exile. Her first short story collection was entitled Pink Butterflies/Bize Dair (2005). She is also an international education consultant, project manager and researcher.

Carlos Reyes-Manzo was born in Chile and has been living in exile in the UK since the 1970s. He has been writing poetry since his youth. In 2006 he published, Oranges in Times of Moon, a bilingual edition. He participated in the 2006 Sidaja International Festival of Poetry in Trieste. He has performed his poetry on radio, television and poetry readings.

Jude Rosen is an independent researcher and writer on urban culture and citizenship, a translator and poet. She has had poems published magazines, in anthologies Oxfam Poems for a Better Future (2005) and This Little Stretch of Life (Hearing Eye, 2006) and her pamphlet A Small Gateway was published by Hearing Eye, 2009. Currently, she is working on a long poem, Reclamation, on the voices and narratives from the marshlands and industries of the Lower Lea Valley, East End and Olympic borderlands, part of which was performed in Hackney Museum in December 2007.

with MUSIC

Entry: £3/£2 members

Time: 8:30pm