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Author Archives: Lia Mills
Svetlana Alexievich & the World’s Ambassadors
Three days ago, Nobel prize-winning writer Svetlana Alexievich (who is also President of PEN in Belarus) issued a statement saying that unknown persons were at her door. The last member of the Coordinating Council of Belarusian opposition to be imprisoned … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom of Speech, PEN, Uncategorized
Tagged Alexander Lukashenko, Ann Linde, Belarus, Chernobyl Prayer, Conor O'Cleirigh, Coordinating Council of the Opposition, ILF Dublin, Maksim Znak, Nobel Prize, PEN, Second Hand Time, Simon Coveney, Svetlana Alexievich, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, The Unwomanly Face of War
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Sun Flower with Spider: lessons from a Covid summer
This Covid summer we spent more time at home than usual. The view from our windows deepened; ordinary things around us acquired detail, texture, specific gravity – even emotional meaning, now that we have the time to absorb those meanings. … Continue reading
Wanting all the Words: Elif Shafak in conversation with Emma Graham-Harrison ( A Guardian Live Event)
6th August 2020 UPDATE 11/08/20: Guardian Live have made the interview available here. (This is a long post but I didn’t want to lose any of what Elif Shafak said. Make yourself a cup of tea & settle in.) EGH … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom of Speech, Interview, On Writing, Uncategorized
Tagged 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, Antonio Gramsci, Armenian genocide, Audre Lord, authoritarianism, Black and White for solidarity, Booker prize, Cemetery of the Companionless, dogma, Elif Shafak, Emma Graham-Harrison, Istanbul, language, Mahmoud Darwish, Ottoman dictionaries, populism, Street of the Cauldron Makers, the Istanbul Convention, Turkey, women in Turkey, Yazidis
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COVID-19 as Weapon
It has not taken long for authoritarian regimes to turn Covid 19 into a weapon. In Turkey, for example, thousands of people who were imprisoned for criminal offences including rape and murder have been released because of the risk of … Continue reading
Truth in the Dark (Nurcan Baysal)
Nurcan Baysal is a journalist and an award-winning human rights activist based in Diyarbakir, Turkey. She has been arrested and detained repeatedly for her writing about Turkish Kurdistan and for tweets she has posted concerning military assaults on the Kurdish … Continue reading
PHILIPPE SANDS and DANIEL GORMAN speak to English PEN
On 6th May, a Zoom meeting for members of English PEN heard Daniel Gorman (Director) and Philippe Sands (President) in conversation. The primary focus of the discussion was on Human Rights in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, but they … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Write, Human Rights, PEN
Tagged Ahmet Altan, Charlotte Von Wächter, Covid-19, Daniel Gorman, East West Street, English PEN, Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Write Campaign, Horst Von Wächter, I Will Never See the World Again, Irish Pen, Lockdown, NURCAN BAYSAL, Otto Von Wächter, PEN Charter, Philippe Sands, Rashomon, Run Lola Run, The Ratline, Virtual Vigils
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Letters With Wings project for Poetry Day Ireland (30th April, 2020)
With people all over the world confined to home because of the Covid-19 pandemic, a cosmopolitan group of poets based in Northern Ireland have set up Letters With Wings, “to bond with artists and activists who are kept in prisons … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom to Write, Poetry
Tagged Broken Glory, Constance Markievicz, Csilla Toldy (Hungary), Daphne Caruana Galizia, Eva Gore Booth, Freedom to Write Campaign, Letters With Wings, Maria McManus (Northern Ireland), Nandi Jola (South Africa), Narges Mohammadi, Poetry Day Ireland, Viviana Fiorentino (Italy)
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Life in Direct Provision Centres
Ireland’s system of Direct Provision for asylum seekers was only ever meant to be temporary in the lives of the people who are housed within it but many people find themselves trapped there for years. Twenty years after its inception, … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom of Speech, Interview
Tagged Direct Provision, Donnah Vuma, Every Child Is Your Child (ECIYC), Fighting Words, Front Line Defenders, Leo Varadkar, Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland (MASI), Now We're Cooking, Red Line Book Festival, Rev. Vicki Lynch, The Irish Times, University of Limerick, University of Sanctuary, Yes We Still Drink Coffee!
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Imprisoned Voices: A Hearing
Today is PEN International’s Day of the Imprisoned Writer. Last night, the Freedom to Write Campaign held a poetry reading in the brilliant Parnell Square premises of Poetry Ireland, who were supporting the event, as was Irish PEN. The format … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Write, Gigs
Tagged "June" PEN International poem relay (2008), Ahmet Altan, Anthony Glavin, Brian Keenan, Catherine Dunne, Celia de Fréine, Chimengul Awul, Colm Keegan, Cormac Breathnach, Daphne Caruana Galizia, Dawit Isaac, Eamon Sweeney, Erol Zavar, Freedom to Write Campaign, Galal El-Behairy, Harold Pinter, Irish Pen, June Considine, Kate Ennals, Lia Mills, Liz McManus, Maria McManus, Mountain Language, Nedim Turfent, PEN International, Poetry Ireland, poetry memorial, Shi Tao, Tal Al-Mahouli. Chris Murray, Toni Morrison
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Eavan Boland
It’s a real shock to learn that Eavan Boland has died. Hers was the kind of presence that seemed outside of time, even though definitely not Outside History. She has had a profound effect on so many of us in … Continue reading →