This conversation brings Choman Hardi, Fatma Savcı, and Kajal Ahmed together for a reflective discussion on poetry, craft, and the worlds their work inhabits. The poets read from their poems and speak about the themes that occupy their writing, including presence, home, freedom, exile, and the continual sense of pursuit that runs through their creative lives.
As poets and translators, and as poets whose work has been translated into other languages, they reflect on what translation has opened up in their practice: how it reshapes perception, inspires new creative directions, and plays an important role within women’s issues more broadly and within the Kurdish question. The conversation also turns to the impact of marginalizing women’s roles in literature and culture, the layers of experience poetry makes visible, and what changes when women become agents in de-marginalizing their own place in cultural life.