Refugee Tales

Five days of inspiration covering literature, music, theatre, drama, poetry, visual arts and children's shows.

Rochdale Literature & Ideas Festival

<H2 CLASS="MsoNormal">Join us on Mother Language Day to hear these incredible Refugee Tales as part of Manchester’s UNESCO City of Literature series. </H2>
Stories shape the world we live in and, by sharing them, we have the power to make change and connect.   In these extraordinary times, the stories in Refugee Tales II (Comma Press), cast a light on a global crisis, immigration, and are told as a modern re-working of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
Written by top authors, in collaboration with refugees, these unique stories are not of some distant, brutal past but of Europe’s new underclass – its refugees.
The project’s second book of Refugee Tales tells of real-life refugees whose travels to the UK have been blighted by challenge and crisis.  
“…a wonderful way of re-humanising some of the most vulnerable and demonised people on the planet.  This collection is both challenging and poignant”.   Shami Chakrabarti
 “A courageous book, it offers the reader great solace. It gives faces to the faceless, and voices to the voiceless, humanizing the people that our society demonises.”   Jackie Kay
 Join us for readings from three contributors:  Ian Duhig, David Herd and Anna Pincus.  Refreshments served after the event.  
Ian Duhig has won the National Poetry Compition twice.  He worked for 15 years with homeless people, and has held Fellowships at Lancaster, Leeds, Durham and Newcastle Universities. He was the Northern Arts Literary Fellow in 2000 and the 2003 International Writer Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin.  He has published several poetry collections and has been shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award and the Forward Poetry Prize (Best First Collection); The Mersey Goldfish (1995), shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize; Nominies (1998), named as one of the 1998 Sunday Times Poetry Books of the Year, and receiving a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation; Lammas Hireling (2003), a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year); and The Speed of Dark (2007), shortlisted for the 2007 T. S. Eliot Prize and the 2007 Costa Poetry Award.
David Herd is a poet, critic, and teacher. He has given readings and lectures in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, the USA and the UK, and his poems, essays and reviews have been widely published in magazines, journals and newspapers. His collections of poetry include <A HREF="https://lareviewofbooks.org/review/answers-on-a-postcard-justice-among-us-citizens" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">All Just</A> (2012), Outwith (2012) and Through (2016). His critical work includes Contemporary Olson (ed.), Enthusiast! Essays on Modern American Literature and John Ashbery and American Poetry.  In 2011 he co-founded the ‘<A HREF="http://soundsnew.org.uk/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Sounds New Poetry Festival</A>’ and he is a co-organiser of the project <A HREF="https://www.kent.ac.uk/english/staff/www.refugeetales.org" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Refugee Tales</A>. 
 Anna Pincus is a founder and co-ordinator of Refugee Tales, and has worked for Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group for over ten years, supporting people held in immigration detention and the volunteers who visit them weekly, managing outreach work and raising awareness about the campaign to end indefinite detention. She co-edited both volumes of Refugee Tales alongside David Herd, which were published by Comma press in 2016 and 2017.

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