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Teaching Poetry to Prisoners – with Talha Ahsan’s Poetry Tutor Pat Winslow & Mike Marqusee

Written by CP Editor Wednesday, 22 January 2014
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A special event with award-winning poet Pat Winslow - Talha Ahsan's poetry tutor at HMP Long Lartin and ongoing poetry mentor

25th January 2014 – Saturday 4pm

EVENT LIVESTREAMED ON THE INTERNET FOR NON-LONDON people www.ihrc.tv

IHRC Bookshop, 202 Preston Road, London, HA9 8PA

Nearest Tube : Preston Road (then 2 minutes walk)

A special event with award-winning poet Pat Winslow – Talha Ahsan poetry tutor at HMP Long Lartin & ongoing poetry mentor

Pat unveils a new poem about Talha & speech about the value of writing poetry in prison & prison-teaching. Hosted by Hamja Ahsan – Talha’s brother with Q & A -

Talha poetry collection & translations were written with her support & mentorship . The event will provide an insight into the creative process of writing under detention. New poems & translations written by Talha will be read for the first time, composed in solitary confinement.

Pat Winslow

Pat  Winslow is part of the Writers in prisons Foundation (www.writersinprison.org.uk).  Her poetry collections include Kissing Bones, Unpredictable Geometry, Dreaming of Walls Repeating Themselves, Skin & Dust, The Girl in the Iron Lung, The Fact of an Eye and Harvest. She is an occasional fiction reviewer for Iota and have written for the Warwick Review. Pat has won a number of prizes including Rialto 2012 & Keats-Shelley Competition 2012. http://thepatwinslow.blogspot.co.uk/

Mike Marqusee

Mike Marqusee is a poet, journalist & activist. Author of Street Music, Redemption Song : Muhammad Ali & the Spirit of the Sixties, If I Am Not for Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew and books on Bob Dylan.A regular correspondent at The Guardian on topics of Imperialism, sport and living with cancer.  http://www.mikemarqusee.com/

 

FREE – no booking required. Donations to family campaign & IHRC welcome

Books, T-shirts & related items for sale -

www.freetalha.org

Twitter hashtag : #TalhaPoetry

Follow : @freetalha & @hamjaahsan

Talha Ahsan is an award-winning poet & translator. Winner of the Platinum, Gold & Bronze Koestler Prize – projected on the Royal Festival Hall whilst in solitary confinement. 1st Prizes in UPs literary competition. Publishing in The Huffington Post, OOMK, Atemis (Italy). Broadcast on TV (IQRA TV, Press TV) & Radio (Resonance FM, WBAI (New York), KPAI Radio (Texas), Radio Free Brighton, Radio Ramadan, Unity FM.) Ahsan’s poetry has been translated into Italian and German. Described as “Hauntingly Beautiful” in The Independent. Talha brother Hamja Ahsan was shortlisted for a LIBERTY Human Rights Award for Free Talha Ahsan campaign use of creative arts in highlighting unjust extradition. A new poetry book will be published soon with an introduction by his UK solicitor Gareth Peirce.

A film Extradition (2012) was made framed around Talha Ahsan Poetry online, featuring Gareth Peirce : www.extraditionfilm.com

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