Our work

literature lab

Literature lab

Literature lab provides residencies for writers, critics and theorists, in partnership with organisations in the Middle East and North Africa.

The residencies provide the opportunity for creative writers to work together and build relationships, taking language, heritage and practice as themes for exploration.
 

Activity

literature lab

05.01.11

Literature LAB - Writers Exchange 2010

Visiting Arts, West Dean College (West Sussex) worked together in inviting two poets who write in Arabic, to take part in a one week residency in the Sussex Downs for the first week of November 2010.

Nujoom al-Ghanem is an Emirati writer who combines popular writing with challenging contemporary verse. Fadhil al-Azzawi originally from Iraq, now based in Berlin, has developed an extraordinary international reputation for his perceptive and entertaining verse and performance.Nujoom and Fadhil participated in Poetry International at the South Bank Centre, London from Saturday 30 Oct to Sunday 7 Nov, where they discussed their practice as poets and they time at West Dean.

Below Greg Mosse writer, translator and creative writing teacher recalls his experience with the poets and their residency

literature lab

22.07.10

Writers Exchange 2010

In partnership with Visiting Arts, West Dean College (West Sussex) has invited two poets who write in Arabic, to take part in a one week residency in the Sussex Downs for the first week of November 2010.