When: 12/06/2011

Where: The Spiro Ark, 25-26 Enford Street, London W1H 1DW

Time: 20:00

Contact: 020 7723 9991

Price: £8 + £1 Internet booking fee

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Three women poets with roots in the Middle East come together to read their work and discuss issues of identity, womanhood and their relationships with their countries of birth.
Esther Kamkar was born in Tehran, Iran. She has lived the USA since 1973 and is on a special visit to London. Her collection of poetry is entitled "Hummingbird Conditions" (Ziba Press 2002) and her poetry has been widely published in numerous magazines.
Yvonne Green's mother's family came to Boukhara in Central Asia 2,700 years ago to buy the silks for Solomon's Temple. A prize-winning poetess, journalist and essayist, Yvonne has read her poems on BBC Radio 4. Her first collection, "The Assay" is shortly to enter its third edition. Her second collection -- a book of translations of the WW2 poet - revered in Russia but unknown in the West, -Semyon Lipkin, will be out in October 2011. In 2012 she will contribute poems to a book by Dr Maisie Myers about the lives of Shanghai's Iraqi Jews.
Colette Littman was expelled as a Jewish refugee from her native Egypt in 1956. As well as the publisher of the Littman Library of Jewish Civilisation, she is a talented poetess, winning Ist Prize in a National Poetry competition. The Spiro Ark has held a reading of her poetry and will schedule another later this year.
Chaired by Jennifer Langer of Exiled Writer Ink.
In collaboration with Harif