Sounds of Asia - poetry

May 20, 2015, 12:13 PM

Listen to Pakistan-born British poet Imtiaz Dharker read from her new collection 'Over the Moon' for which she was awarded The Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry 2014. Leeds-born Vidyan Ravinthiran, whose parents are Sri Lankan, reads poems from 'Grun-tu-molani', his debut of beautiful and captivating poetry inspired by his Sri Lankan roots. Writer and critic and Cambridge academic Preti Taneja is chairing the event and will take you through the depths of the poems selected – what they mean and how they came to write them. #AHLIT15 #spokenword #poetry