Jayson Iwen’s book tour has migrated to Facebook Live
Local poet Jayson Iwen is reading his award-winning poetry live online, in lieu of visiting bookshops around the country.
Local poet Jayson Iwen is reading his award-winning poetry live online, in lieu of visiting bookshops around the country.
Jayson Iwen has co-translated a significant poem by Salim Barakat, a Kurdish-Syrian poet.
It’s a love poem, and as co-translator Huda Fakhreddine says, “Dylana and Diram’s love infiltrates and overwhelms the landscape. Barakat does not use images of nature to draw analogies with their relationship. The spiritual and sensual bond between them consumes nature and natural scenery and transforms it into a mere manifestation of a surging emotional deluge.”
The poem can be read in the prestigious World Literature Today.
