Venue: Artist in Exile Glasgow Gallery, 10 Osborne Street, Glasgow.
Time: 3pm-5pm.
Event Description: Glasgow audiences have been privileged in the last few years to have several opportunities to hear the work of poets from Palestine and Persia (modern Iran) in their own languages, and in translation. But most of us probably have little idea of the poetic traditions from which these poems spring or of how contemporary writers in Arabic and Farsi (the language of Persia) have adapted them to modern conditions. Now is the chance to find out!

The programme will be in two halves, Persia and Palestine, linked by Middle Eastern music, and will involve the poets reading their poems (in the original and in translation) and discussing them. The programme, which has been organised by Scottish PEN, will also include poems by the Persian poets Hafez and Shorab Sepehri, presented by Jila Peacock.
Cost: £5 (includes handouts).
Contact and Booking: Anne Clarke, 0/1 25 Craigmillar Road, Glasgow, G42 9JZ. acclarke6@btopenworld.com, 0141 649 7365.