An Evening with Ghazal Mosadeq

Tuesday 10th November 5:30pm
The Boardroom, University of Westminster, 309 Regent St W1B 2HW

“The Book of Advice continues the established Persian literary genre of Andarznama. The English text resembles an erasure poem from a verse drama, or a sparse but rich open field. It glints with devastating humour, poised between ‘still’ and’again’. It is accessible, via an ‘I’ who tries to be good in any time or place—but who also strays across every time and sits inside the window of any place. It skewers the pretensions of a poet in a beanie, shares the parable of Ibn Sina’s donkey, forgets the friend’s name while remembering the friend. A recurrent image is of the person who suddenly gives a ‘clear look,’ though eyes are the receptors of light, and looks are unreadable. My experience of Ghazal herself is of just such occasional lightning looks, followed by unfailingly thoughtful utterance.”

— Anthony Vahni Capildeo

Ghazal Mosadeq is a poet, editor and translator. She is the founder of Pamenar Press, an independent publisher of poetry, translation, hybrid and critical writing. Her own work has been published by Ugly Duckling Presse, Tripwire, Nu Editions, Shearsman, Fence, Arc Poetry, Fiddlehead, Asymptote, Modern Poetry In Translation, among others. She is a member of the editorial advisory board for the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry.

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