The Elixir Poetry Podcast
British poet Helen Wing has spent the past 20 years living between the UK, China and the Middle East, experiencing first-hand the human impact of poetry across borders. On The Elixir Poetry Podcast, she asks anonymous individuals from around the world to read the poem that has touched them the most, and to unveil why. (Each episode includes original music)
The Elixir Poetry Podcast
15. "Say The Difficult Thing, Get The Monsters Out On The Page, & Explore Them" - Albanian Poet Amina Meshnuni
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In this episode of Elixir, Helen is talking to Amina Meshnuni about her own poem ‘Our Children’ written in Albanian and also about a poem by another Albanian poet, Mojkom Zeqo, called ‘The Mask of God’.
They discuss:
- Amina's poem about her anger at the world
- The emotional importance of reading poetry from different countries
- Mojkom Zeqo
- Albania: the historical context of 'The Mask of God', and the emotionality of the language
Discover poetry through the heart of another…
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