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Category Archives: Freedom to Write
Letters With Wings: When Art Meets Activism (Imagine! Belfast Festival)
This event, organised by Letters With Wings, was dedicated to the women artists Chimengul Awut (award-winning Uyghur poet) and Nûdem Durak (a folk-musician of Kurdish origin who is a political prisoner in Turkey). Participants included: Lia Mills (Chair of Irish … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Write
Tagged Ahmet Altan, Antje Stehn, Broken Glory, Burma, Caroline Stockford, Catherine Dunne, Celia de Fréine, Chimengul Awut, Constance Markievicz, Csilla Toldy, Eva Gore Booth, Evgeny Shtorn, Free the Poet, Freedom of Speech, Gianluca Costantini, I Will Never See the World Again, Ilhan Sami Çomak, Imagine Belfast Festival, Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann, Kate Ennals, Letters With Wings, Lia Mills, Moyra Donaldson, Myanmar, Nandi Jola, Nûdem Durak, Norsk PEN/PEN Norway, PEN International, PENWrites, Simone Theiss, Viviana Fiorentino
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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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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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POETRY MEMORIAL FOR DAPHNE CARUANA GALIZIA – Call for poems
It’s hard to believe that almost two years have passed since the Maltese anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered, but 16th October will mark the second anniversary of her death. A fierce critic of the political establishment in Malta, … Continue reading
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