Credit: E. Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
Pádraig Ó Tuama is joined by Dr. Yousif M. Qasmiyeh.
Yousif M. Qasmiyeh is a poet and scholar whose work has appeared in publications including Modern Poetry in Translation, Critical Quarterly, Cambridge Literary Review, New England Review, and Poetry London. His collection Writing the Camp (Broken Sleep Books, 2021), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the 2022 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. Yousif is Writer in Residence for Refugee Hosts - a research project at University College London. His latest collection, Eating the Archive, was published by Broken Sleep Books in 2023.
Yousif M. Qasmiyeh joins Pádraig to talk about displacement, 'refugee literature', poetry, and conceptions of time. You can find a full transcript and discussion questions here.