حاجتي للكلمةْ حاجةُ السَّابقِ للحَجَرِ والنّارِ حاجتُه للبَلْطةِ والرُّمحِ والدرعِ للأُنسِ بالنايِّ.. أثريتُكِ أثريتُ ظنَّ الحياةِ بأيّامِها والذئب بلياليه أثريتُ جوعَ الفرادةِ بقيتُ فأبقيتُ كَسْبَ السبيَّة حيّاً .. ما أكلتهُ الحروبُ بقاياكَ ما ألهمَ المُهمَلَ واحدٌ من رعايا فتنتكِ المُفترِسَة! فطنتني
Muhammad al-Fayturi was born in Sudan – he does not know the year of his birth – in Al-Janina on the western border of Sudan. His father was a Sufi sheikh of Libyan Bedouin extraction while his mother was from a Gulf tribe which traced its lineage back to the Prophet Muhammad. Soon after his […]
Mohamed Al-Hassan Hummaid was a very popular Sudanese poet who wrote in dialect. He was killed in a car crash in Khartoum in March 2012.
Ateif Khieri is one of the most highly regarded Sudanese poets of his generation. Born in Karima in northern Sudan in 1967, he moved to Khartoum in 1986 to study Drama at Sudan University. He became actively involved in the city’s then thriving theatres, quickly gaining acclaim for his work as an actor and director. […]
Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi is one of the leading African poets writing in Arabic today. He has gained a wide audience in his native Sudan for his imaginative approach to poetry and for the delicacy and emotional frankness of his lyrics. His poetry has always been concerned with the rich cultural and linguistic diversity of Sudan and […]
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.’