Dear All,
I hope this email finds you well. I'm writing to you about an upcoming reading and conversation at the Warburg Institute that might be of interest:
Agitated Air – Poems After Ibn Arabi -
27th April 2022, 6pm BST
An online reading and conversation with poets & translators Yasmine Seale, Robin Moger, and Professor Marina Warner.
Born in Murcia in 1165, Ibn Arabi was a prolific philosopher and poet. He travelled extensively before settling in Damascus, where he died in 1240. Tarjumãn Al-ashwãq, or ‘The Interpreter of Desires’, is a cycle of sixty-one Arabic poems. They speak of loss and bewilderment, a spiritual and sensual yearning for the divine, and a hunger for communion in which near and far collapse.
Agitated Air: Poems after Ibn Arabi (released in February 2022 by Tenement Press) is a correspondence in poems between Istanbul and Cape Town, following the wake of The Interpreter of Desires. Collaborating at a distance, Yasmine Seale and Robin Moger work in close counterpoint, making separate translations of each poem, exchanging them, then writing new poems in response to what they receive. The process continues until they are exhausted, and then a new chain begins.
In this online reading, Yasmine Seale and Robin Moger will give voice to these poems, bringing to life the imagery and sounds that punctuated their exchange. The reading will be followed by a discussion between the poet-translators and Marina Warner.
The event is free but registration is essential. More information and details about booking can be found here: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/agitated-air-poems-after-ibn-arabi
Thank you.
Kind regards,
Beatrice Bottomley
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