Carola Brantome is an award-winning Nicaraguan poet born in 1961. Carola has published the following books: – Más serio que un semáforo (More serious than a traffic light) Poetry. Editorial Anamá. Managua, Nicaragua, 1995. Winner of the Nicaraguan Institute of Culture for unpublished young writers. – Marea convocada. (Summoned tide) Poetry. Published by the Norwegian […]
Jackie Kay is an award-winning Scottish poet, playwright, and novelist, known for her works Other Lovers (1993), Trumpet (1998) and Bantam (2017). Her work often deals with identity, race, nationality, gender, and sexuality. From 2016 to 2021 Jackie Kay was the Makar, the poet laureate of Scotland and she Served as the Chancellor of the […]
Hamdi Uld Allal Uld Daf (better known as Zaim Allal) is a famous saharawi poet who was born in Hawza, Western Sahara in 1957. He was an activist against the Spanish colonialisation of Western Sahara and he joined the ranks of the revolution led by the POLISARIO after the Moroccan invasion. Zaim Allal was a […]
Hamza Lakhal is a poet, activist, and translator. He was born in El Aaiun, capital of Western Sahara, eight years after the 1975 invasion of his country by Morocco. His first poetry collection, A Destiny in Windblown Poetry published by L’Harmattan-RASD, talks of a young man’s passion for his violated but resistant homeland.
Kostya Tsolakis is a London-based poet and journalist, born and raised in Athens, Greece. A Warwick Writing Programme graduate, he is founding editor of harana poetry, the online magazine for poets writing in English as a second or parallel language, and in 2020-21 was co-poetry editor at Ambit. His debut poetry pamphlet Ephebos is out […]
Do Trung Quan is a Vietnamese poet. Many of his poems are set to music and loved by many people such as Homeland, Phuong Hong… He is also known as MC for music programs or actor for several TV series.
Limam Boicha was born in the Western Sahara in 1972. He is a member of the Generación de la Amistad [Generation of Friendship] a group of Saharawi poets who have tried to raise awareness of the condition of their people. A former Spanish colony the Western Sahara was invaded by Morocco in 1975 displacing more […]
Rifat Abbas is a popular poet among Siraiki speakers due to his innovative ideas and his creative use of poetic form. The Kafi was first introduced by the great Siraiki Sufi poet, Khwaja Ghulam Farid (1841-1901) and is a beautiful poetic form that embodies romance along with spirituality. In 2005 Abbas was given the Khawaja […]
Mohammed Ebnu was born in the Western Sahara in 1968 and studied Spanish language and literature in Cuba. His poetry reflects the war, exile and the harsh living conditions of Saharawis in occupied Sahara and in the refugee camps. He has been included in two Saharawi poetry anthologies in Spanish: Añoranza [Longing] and Bubisher. He […]
Sukrita Paul Kumar is a distinguished poet and critic. She teaches literature at a Delhi University College. She has published four collections of poems in English, Oscillations, Apurna, Folds of Silence and Without Margins. Other books by her include, Narrating Partition, Conversations on Modernism, The New Story, Breakthrough (ed.), and Man, Woman and Androgyny. Sukrita […]