Well, those who read this blog know it is also about translating poetry to the highest possible standards.Literary translators are often underpaid or their name is omitted from the credits. in CEATL’s words: Drawing on the experience …
Read MoreGeen Castor treinen door Europa
by Tumbleweed • November 24th, 2011
Salon12b staat geheel acter de moedige mensen die de Castortrein van uit Frankrijk naar Gorleben proberen tegen te houden door de sporen te bezetten. Onder ‘Nooit’ vind je de kaart van waar de trein langs komt en onder ‘Maar ni…
Read MoreNo to the death penalty
by Tumbleweed • August 25th, 2011
The text about Troy Davis and his planned execution in September, which should not take place. JESS ESDu sollst nicht tötenDuDuDuDuDuDuDuDuDuPoem by Fred SchywekFrom the book: Felsenleiter
Read MoreOne of the upcoming peaceactions…
by Tumbleweed • August 24th, 2011
You might have read our appeal for September first, world day for peace. The poetry reading to which we have been invited to read will be one of the peace actions. The reading is on 9/11, 10 years later. A poem honoring the firemen going into the tower…
Read More6 Augustus
by Tumbleweed • August 6th, 2011
6 Augustus 1945: bommen werpen afgeworpen op Hiroshima en Nagasaki. Het begin van een gevaarlijke, dodelijke escalatie in het gebruik van kernenergie en kernwapens
Hama
by Tumbleweed • August 5th, 2011
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For Susan Birkeland’s friends
by Tumbleweed • July 1st, 2011
Bahraini Writer and Journalist: Freedom of Expression II
by Tumbleweed • June 20th, 2011
PEN protests the detention of also this Bahraini author:
Abbas Al-Murshid, a well-known Bahraini writer and researcher, and a frequent contributor to the Bahraini daily Al-Waqt as well as numerous online publications. He has written about Bahrain’s social unrest, corruption, institutional discrimination and other topics considered sensitive by the government. He was summoned on 15 May 2011 to appear at Al-Naeim police station for interrogation and has not been seen since. No charges have yet been made against Al-Murshid.
On 16 May 2011, he called his family to tell them that he had been placed under arrest and then the line was disconnected. Al-Murshid has been previously arrested on several occasions in relation to his writing and many of his books have been banned in Bahrain. At the end of January 2009, Al-Murshid was hit above his eye with a rubber bullet in a targeted attack and as a result he had to be admitted to hospital.
Background.
Send appeals to for Abbas Al-Murshid welbeing and freedom
and voice your concern concern about the one year of imprisonment of Ayat Al-Gormezi. Help her with her apeal! Stand by free speach.
His Majesty Sheikh Hamad bin Issa Al-Khalifa
King of Bahrain
Office of His Majesty the King
P.O.Box 555
Rifa’a Palace
Kingdom of Bahrain.
Fax: +973 176 64 587
Defending Freedom of expession is important hence follows an other part of a poem by Ayat A-Gormezi’s
Bahrein: Poet sentenced: Ayat Al-Gormezi
by Tumbleweed • June 16th, 2011
The poet Ayat Al-Gormezi , 20 years old, recited protest poems on March 30, 2011. She criticized the monarchy and demaned greater democracy. Her mother believes Ayat was tortured, since she had to be hospitalised as a result of ill-treatment. On …
Read More2nd European Festival of Poetry
by Tumbleweed • April 30th, 2011
After some hesitation we have embraced the idea of a 2nd European Festival of Poetry: Note the date: September 17, 2011, 8PM, Permeke Library in Antwerp, Belgium. Poets from five countries and two continents will participate. The Netherlands: Paul Gellings, Job Degenaar and Catharina Boer, from Germany Wilfried Bienek and Fred Schywek (organisor) and from Brittany, France, Olivier Cousin. I put in a link to his poetic blog. From Belgium there will be established poets, young poets, the city poet laureate from Antwerp, a hard core performer, intimate and wise poets. Yet the big surprise is that it looks like one American poetess is coming over for the 2nd European Festival of Poetry: Devorah Major. She is a former city poet laureate of San Francisco, writes vibrant, moving poetry. She champions poetry as a tool of resistance, works with high school kids to open up their world and has given writing classes to the homeless. Meet devorah major in her poetry:
from: where river meets ocean
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Nederlands: Annmarie Sauer
The multilingualism of the concept still thrives…
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