Teaching Poetry to Prisoners
This event on 25th January 2014 at 16:00 has past.
Contact: www.freetalha.org
A special event with award-winning poet Pat Winslow - Talha Ahsan's poetry tutor at HMP Long Lartin & poetry mentor.
Pat unveils a new poem about Talha & speaks about the value of writing poetry in prison & prison-teaching. Hosted by Hamja Ahsan -Talha brother's, with Q & A.
Talha poetry collection & translations were written with her support & mentorship. The event will provide an insight into the creative process of writing under detention. New poems & translations written by Talha will be read for the first time, composed in solitary confinement.
Pat works as a writer in residence at prison HMP Long Lartin where Talha Ahsan & Babar Ahmad were detained without trial (for the longest period in British legal history). She worked for twelve years as an actor and left the theatre in 1987 to take up writing. Her poetry collections include Kissing Bones, Unpredictable Geometry, Dreaming of Walls Repeating Themselves, Skin & Dust, The Girl in the Iron Lung, The Fact of an Eye and Harvest. She is an occasional fiction reviewer for Iota and have written for the Warwick Review. Pat has won a number of prizes including Rialto 2012 & Keats-Shelley Competition 2012
Info on Pat Winslow : http://thepatwinslow.blogspot.co.uk/
FREE - no booking required. Donations to family campaign & IHRC welcome
Books, T-shirts & related items for sale -
Twitter hashtag : #TalhaPoetry
Follow : @freetalha & @hamjaahsan
Talha Ahsan is an award-winning poet & translator. Winner of the Platinum, Gold & Bronze Koestler Prize - projected on the Royal Festival Hall whilst in solitary confinement. 1st Prizes in UPs literary competition. Publishing in The Huffington Post, OOMK, Atemis (Italy). Broadcast on TV (IQRA TV, Press TV) & Radio (Resonance FM, WBAI (New York), KPAI Radio (Texas), Radio Free Brighton, Radio Ramadan, Unity FM.) Ahsan's poetry has been translated into Italian and German. Described as "Hauntingly Beautiful" in The Independent. Talha brother Hamja Ahsan was shortlisted for a LIBERTY Human Rights Award for Free Talha Ahsan campaign use of creative arts with Human Rights. A new poetry book will be published soon with an introduction by his UK solicitor Gareth Peirce.
A film Extradition (2012) was made framed around Talha Ahsan Poetry online, featuring Gareth Peirce : www.extraditionfilm.com
Entry: Free
Time: 4:00pm
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