Hanan Issa

Borderlands The chance to explore borders and barriers and what they mean both on the map and in out heads and hearts

🎶🎵 Yooooo make me feel 🎶 Welcome to today's earworm, and this week's blog.

Borders: Physical, social, sexual, spiritual. @hananelizabethissa.bsky.social @mikeparker.bsky.social and @jonsavage.bsky.social Always creative. Very Montgomeryshire

More info and tickets here 👇👇👇 Mighty real
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So excited to return to Cardiff Central lib for an event on Gathering PLUS OPEN MIC with @hananelizabethissa.bsky.social. Join us!!!

Thurs 17 April 2025, 5.45pm. Cardiff Central Library Hub. Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature (plus open mic), with Durre Shahwar and Hanan Issa. Join us as we celebrate a year since the publication of landmark essay collection Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature (editors: Durre Shahwar and Nasia Sarwar-Skuse). As well as readings from the book and discussion with co-editor Durre Shahwar and contributor Hanan Issa, National Poet of Wales, there will be an open mic on the theme of connections with nature and landscape. All are welcome.

*New event!* Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature (plus open mic), with Durre Shahwar and Hanan Issa!

Hear about this landmark collection of essays on nature by women of colour, and join in during a themed open mic session. All welcome!

Tickets: tinyurl.com/yrcxyc5e

@cardiff-hub.bsky.social

✨IWD ‘25✨

AutoPortrait (Hanan In A Green Nissan) after Tamara de Lempicka

📷: R E Dixon Photography

It was my pleasure as always clare 💚

To the Brink Poetry Off the Shelf · Episode

“In poetry we hold our culture.” Nick Makoha

Check out Poetry Off The Shelf’s latest episode where we deep dive into the Welsh language and culture, cynghanedd poetry, and the Cerdd Tafod Arall project.
Thanks again to Helena, Nick, Ciara and Hammad 💚

open.spotify.com/episode/11WB...

Had the pleasure of interviewing our National Poet @hananelizabethissa.bsky.social for TheDragon'sPen. Hanan shared projescts she's been doing w/ children immersing them in poems as a way of connecting. Really enriching +important work. Loved hearing her poems🫶❤️‍🔥#TerryTinderProductions #BBCRadioWales

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌙Ramadan Mubarak / Dydd Gwŷl Dewi Sant 🌙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Last year I began the Cerdd Tafod Arall / Music of Another Tongue project - an exploration into understanding more about the tradition of cynghanedd.

For more information, check out:
www.literaturewales.org/our-projects...

My favorite story about Kafka tells how he met a child who was crying after losing her doll. He wrote her letters from the doll until she wrote back saying she was over it. The great artist as self-contented misanthrope is a myth. If you love what art really is, you help people.

Totally planned it 😜

Please enjoy this pic of me, Hamilton, and the commemorative poem I wrote for Wales Millennium Centre’s birthday inspired by Gwyneth Lewis’ iconic verses 💚

Abdellatif Laabi’s ‘My Mother Language / La langue de ma mère 💔