Saturday, October 8th, 2011, noon, £12 (ticket allows access to all
SALF events taking place on Saturday)
Rich
Mix,
35-47 Bethnal Green Road,
London,
E1 6LA
Kashmir Heritage Poetry: A Tribute to Agha
Shahid Ali with Ali Mirza Waheed, Kamila Shamsie
Kashmiri American poet, translator,
scholar, and teacher, Agha Shahid Ali wrote five books of poetry and
edited an important collection of contemporary ghazals before his untimely
death in 2001. His collections include A Walk Through the Yellow
Pages, The Half-Inch Himalayas, A Nostalgist’s Map of America, The
Country Without a Post Office and Rooms Are Never Finished (finalist for
the National Book Award, 2001). His last book was Call Me Ishmael Tonight,
a collection of English ghazals. Ali was also a translator of
Faiz Ahmed Faiz (The Rebel’s Silhouette: Selected Poems) and became
widely credited for popularising the ghazal
form in America. In this event, drawing on
images and selected passages, Kamila Shamsie pays tribute to
his work, with readings from Mirza Waheed.
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