#Bryar Bajalan

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Mini-Reviews (6): A Friend’s Kitchen

A Friend’s Kitchen, Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, translated by Bryar Bajalan and Shook (Poetry Translation Centre), £9 I remember touring with Saddiq when both Gaarriye and Sarah Maguire were still alive (I was reading with Gaarriye as one of his co-translators), so reading this lovely collection with its distinctly elegiac overtones was a moving experience. The link with Gaarriye was for me reinforced…

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Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, from "Asylum Papers" (trans. Bryar Bajalan & Shook) [ID'd]

[arablit]

From Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi’s 'A Friend's Kitchen'

Next month, Poetry Translation Centre is releasing a collection of poetry by Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, A Friend’s Kitchen, translated by Bryar Bajalan and Shook. To mark the occasion, they have shared an excerpt from the introduction and two poems from the collection. An excerpt from the introduction to A Friend’s Kitchen By Bryar Bajalan In his poem ‘The Book of Sorrows’, Al-Saddiq illustrates the…

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Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, from "Asylum Papers" (trans. Bryar Bajalan & Shook) [ID'd]