The latest issue of Wasafiri: the Magazine of International Contemporary Writing, based on a Global Uncertainties conference on Global Youth Cultures held at Kent, is about to be launched at the ICA on the 29th January. The event, entitled ‘to exist is to Resist’ … Young Poets’ Words for These Times’, is part of a series of activities that will mark the affiliation between the School of English and the ICA.
The line-up of poets at this performance event includes Ahmed Haddad, Egyptian revolution poet, author of four collections, song-writer (including for Eskenderella), film-maker and star of feature film Free Times; Avaes Mohammed, poet and playwright (of commissioned plays including Shadow Companion and Crystal Kisses), winner of Amnesty International Media Award for his poem ‘Bhopal’; Rafeef Ziadah, performance poet with recent debut album Hadeel (dedicated to Palestinian youth), representative of Palestine at Poetry Parnassus; and filmed star performances from Lyrics Revolt and Kosal Khiev (best film performance, Berlin Poetry Film Festival 2012).
For one night only, the myriad of issues that matter to young artists – from the political to the personal – will take centre stage, told in lyrical tongues by poets from Cambodia, the Middle East, the UK and the USA.
