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A New Divan

A New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue between East and West at the Hay Festival

24th May 2019

This event featured Nujoom Alghanem and Paul Farley reading from A New Divan and discussing poetry in translation. The event was chaired by Bill Swainson, A New Divan’s editor.

Click here to watch a video of Nujoom reading her poem, courtesy of the Hay Festival.

Click here to hear the full event on the Hay Player.

In 1819, the great German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe published his West-Eastern Divan, a celebration through poetry of friendship between ‘East’ and ‘West’. 200 years later, the world has radically moved on, but the need for a renewed initiative for dialogue and friendship between cultures has never been greater. With this in mind, Gingko has published a new, annotated translation of the original West-Eastern Divan, but also A New Divan - a new, multilingual poetry anthology for our times.

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