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Beloved by Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf

Featuring: Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf, Said Jama Hussein, Maxamed Xasan ‘Alto’, Clare Pollard

Beloved by Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf is a passionate love poem! It is a Baarcadde, one of the many Metric forms of Somali poetry made up of short lines.

First, you will hear the stunning translation by UK poet Clare Pollard who captures the alliterating Bs of the original Somali and the sense of yearning with lines like 'be my new moon / unbreakable metal'.

Afterwards, you can hear Asha reading the poem in the original Somali.

October 2017 sees the publication of her first English Language collection published by Bloodaxe Books. The collection's title The Sea-Migrations or, Tahriib in Somali, refers to the search for a better life in another country.

You can buy The Sea-Migrations here.

This is part of our new rebranded weekly release: the Dual Poetry Podcast, one poem in two languages from the Poetry Translation Centre. As ever we will be releasing a translated poem each week.

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