Choman Hardi - 'Homeland, what shall I do with you?'

Modern Poetry in Translation

English - November 25, 2015 20:45 - 10 minutes - 23 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
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Choman Hardi, interview at The Queens College Oxford.

CHOMAN HARDI was born in Iraqi Kurdistan. She came to England
as a refugee in 1993. She has published collections of poetry
in Kurdish and English. In 2010 four poems from her English
collection, Life For Us (Bloodaxe Books, 2004), were selected
for the English GCSE curriculum. Her forthcoming collection,
Considering the Women, is published by Bloodaxe Books in 2015.