Hanan Issa
@hananelizabethissa.bsky.social
National Poet of Wales @litwales 💚 ENQUIRIES: hanan-issa@outlook.com✨I don’t read work-related DM’s✨ All views my own. Rep’d by Abi Fellows at DHH Literary Agency
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Poetry Off the Shelf · Episode
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“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...
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...
Reposted by Hanan Issa
🎶🎵 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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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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Borderlands
The chance to explore borders and barriers and what they mean both on the map and in out heads and hearts
montylitfest.com
April 13, 2025 at 11:10 AM
🎶🎵 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
montyl
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!!!
*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
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
March 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
So excited to return to Cardiff Central lib for an event on Gathering PLUS OPEN MIC with @hananelizabethissa.bsky.social. Join us!!!
Reposted by Hanan Issa
*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
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
March 26, 2025 at 10:12 AM
*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
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
AutoPortrait (Hanan In A Green Nissan) after Tamara de Lempicka
📷: R E Dixon Photography
March 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
✨IWD ‘25✨
AutoPortrait (Hanan In A Green Nissan) after Tamara de Lempicka
📷: R E Dixon Photography
AutoPortrait (Hanan In A Green Nissan) after Tamara de Lempicka
📷: R E Dixon Photography
“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...
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...
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Poetry Off the Shelf · Episode
open.spotify.com
March 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
“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...
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...
Reposted by Hanan Issa
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
March 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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...
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...
March 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
🏴🌙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...
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...
Reposted by Hanan Issa
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.
December 4, 2024 at 10:23 PM
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.
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 💚
November 28, 2024 at 10:07 AM
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 💔
November 24, 2024 at 9:49 AM
Abdellatif Laabi’s ‘My Mother Language / La langue de ma mère 💔