This is an interview Saddiq gave to Richard Lea of Guardian Online during his Autumn Tour in 2006. ‘In the face of Sudan’s long conflict between the supposedly Arabic north and African south, Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi’s poetry blends influences from both. Richard Lea meets him.’
Gaarriye was interviewed by James Byrne for The Wolf, just before his return to Somaliland following his participation in the 2005 World Poets’ Tour.
In an interview given to The Wolf, David Harsent discussed co-translating Somali poet, Gaarriye. A full version on the interview was published in The Wolf, no.11.
Susannah Tarbush reported on our World Poets’ Tour Men’s Night reading at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS, on 13th October, 2005. The article was published in The Saudi Gazette.
Kevin Rushby wrote this article for The Guardian after meeting the WPT poets from Sudan, Afghanistan and Somaliland.
Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi wrote this piece about the 2005 World Poets’ Tour for Al-Sudani, the leading independent newspaper in Sudan. The article is in Arabic.
Richard Lea wrote this review of the World Poets’ Tour Women’s Night at the Brunei Gallery for the Guardian Culture Vulture blog.
This article by Susannah Tarbush for The Saudi Gazette celebrates the launch of The Poetry Translation Centre on 1st June, 2004.