Amir Darwish
@amirdarwish.bsky.social
British Syrian poet/writer of Kurdish origin. Current PhD student. Publication: Dear Refugee amirdarwish32@gmail.com football lover. views are mine. He/Him.
Mona Jebril, Serena Paver, and our editor Amir Darwish read from the newest edition of The Other Side of Hope.
📅 Tuesday 16 December 2025
⏰ 1:00PM – 2:30PM (UK time)
💻 Online via Microsoft Teams
🔗 Join the meeting:
Meeting ID: 396 980 084 947 61
Passcode: 4jG7MS2H
📅 Tuesday 16 December 2025
⏰ 1:00PM – 2:30PM (UK time)
💻 Online via Microsoft Teams
🔗 Join the meeting:
Meeting ID: 396 980 084 947 61
Passcode: 4jG7MS2H
December 12, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Mona Jebril, Serena Paver, and our editor Amir Darwish read from the newest edition of The Other Side of Hope.
📅 Tuesday 16 December 2025
⏰ 1:00PM – 2:30PM (UK time)
💻 Online via Microsoft Teams
🔗 Join the meeting:
Meeting ID: 396 980 084 947 61
Passcode: 4jG7MS2H
📅 Tuesday 16 December 2025
⏰ 1:00PM – 2:30PM (UK time)
💻 Online via Microsoft Teams
🔗 Join the meeting:
Meeting ID: 396 980 084 947 61
Passcode: 4jG7MS2H
This fantastic event is happening tomorrow evening at the National Poetry Library in the South Bank Centre:
November 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM
This fantastic event is happening tomorrow evening at the National Poetry Library in the South Bank Centre:
Only a few more days left for this lovely event to take place in Hertford, where music and poetry are on the menu 😊:
November 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Only a few more days left for this lovely event to take place in Hertford, where music and poetry are on the menu 😊:
I am pleased to be a guest poet at the next Exiled Writers Ink Cafe this coming Tuesday, the 18th of November. More details here:
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Exiled Lit Café: Freedom! | Southbank Centre
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November 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I am pleased to be a guest poet at the next Exiled Writers Ink Cafe this coming Tuesday, the 18th of November. More details here:
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/venues/natio...
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/venues/natio...
I am excited to be part of this fantastic event at Acton Library this coming Saturday, the 15/11/2025. Thanks to Artification
November 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I am excited to be part of this fantastic event at Acton Library this coming Saturday, the 15/11/2025. Thanks to Artification
I am pleased to see my poem ‘Refugees’ Walk’ published in the ‘Who We Are’ anthology by the Morning Star Newspaper:
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Who We Are: 61 Poems from the Morning Star
What is the relationship of culture to the wider movement for socialism? At the Morning Star we think that the place which culture occupies in the paper should be reflected throughout the Trade Union ...
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October 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I am pleased to see my poem ‘Refugees’ Walk’ published in the ‘Who We Are’ anthology by the Morning Star Newspaper:
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shop.morningstaronline.co.uk/products/who...
This promising event will be in central London this Saturday, where I will read some of my work. Please do join us for an afternoon of misic, poetry and storytelling:
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Canalside Storytelling Festival
Canalside Storytelling Festival showcases poetry, music and storytelling, by artists from various backgrounds.
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September 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This promising event will be in central London this Saturday, where I will read some of my work. Please do join us for an afternoon of misic, poetry and storytelling:
www.eventbrite.com/e/canalside-...
www.eventbrite.com/e/canalside-...
My two poems, ‘Where I come from,’ & ‘If you are British I am British too,’ translated into French, thanks to the French poet and writer Valérie Harkness:
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Amir Darwish
Dans sa rubrique sur la poésie britannique, Valérie Harkness évoque pour nous le poète syro-britannique Amir Darwish.
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September 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
My two poems, ‘Where I come from,’ & ‘If you are British I am British too,’ translated into French, thanks to the French poet and writer Valérie Harkness:
dailleurspoesie.com/amir-darwish/
dailleurspoesie.com/amir-darwish/
I will be reading my work on the 20th of September, including an excerpt from my forthcoming short story ‘Should I Stay or Should I Go,’ at Canalside Storytelling Festival in Paddington. There will be music as well. All are welcome:
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Canalside Storytelling Festival
Canalside Storytelling Festival showcases poetry, music and storytelling, by artists from various backgrounds.
www.eventbrite.com
August 30, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I will be reading my work on the 20th of September, including an excerpt from my forthcoming short story ‘Should I Stay or Should I Go,’ at Canalside Storytelling Festival in Paddington. There will be music as well. All are welcome:
www.eventbrite.com/e/canalside-...
www.eventbrite.com/e/canalside-...
Join us at University College London (UCL) to hear Kurdish translator Jiyar Homer and British poet Mike Baynham discuss their translation of Dilawar Karadaghi’s My Country’s Hair Turned White, published by Arc Publications. Registration is essential.
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My Country's Hair Turned White
Join Jiyar Homer & Mike Baynham at UCL for the book launch of My Country’s Hair Turned White
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August 2, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Join us at University College London (UCL) to hear Kurdish translator Jiyar Homer and British poet Mike Baynham discuss their translation of Dilawar Karadaghi’s My Country’s Hair Turned White, published by Arc Publications. Registration is essential.
www.eventbrite.com/e/my-country...
www.eventbrite.com/e/my-country...
وداعآ زياد الرحباني.
'أنا مش كافر بس الجوع كافر.' قديش هل جملة مناسبة لهل أوقات.
'أنا مش كافر بس الجوع كافر.' قديش هل جملة مناسبة لهل أوقات.
July 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
وداعآ زياد الرحباني.
'أنا مش كافر بس الجوع كافر.' قديش هل جملة مناسبة لهل أوقات.
'أنا مش كافر بس الجوع كافر.' قديش هل جملة مناسبة لهل أوقات.
Pleased to have been offered an extension to my position as an Associate Lecturer at the University of Northampton until August 2026.
July 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Pleased to have been offered an extension to my position as an Associate Lecturer at the University of Northampton until August 2026.
احمد الشرع: 'سوريا ليست للتقسيم.' ممكن حدا يشرح للرئيس الفرق ما بين التقسيم، الانفصال، الحكم الذاتي، الفدرالية، الخخخ. توقعت منه كرئيس دولة كسوريا (الي فيها فسيفساء بشرية مميزة) انو يكون عندو معرفة افضل بالنظم السياسية.
July 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
احمد الشرع: 'سوريا ليست للتقسيم.' ممكن حدا يشرح للرئيس الفرق ما بين التقسيم، الانفصال، الحكم الذاتي، الفدرالية، الخخخ. توقعت منه كرئيس دولة كسوريا (الي فيها فسيفساء بشرية مميزة) انو يكون عندو معرفة افضل بالنظم السياسية.
‘Why do you cry when you hear this song?’ I used to ask my mom back in the day. ‘You will understand when you grow up,’ she replied.
I think she used to cry to reflect the pain of being Kurdish, landless, suffering from oppression, with no hope in sight.
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I think she used to cry to reflect the pain of being Kurdish, landless, suffering from oppression, with no hope in sight.
youtu.be/cDg0aSMrjVw?...
شفان بروار كريفة .#şivan perwer #kirive
YouTube video by جمال محمد
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July 2, 2025 at 10:03 AM
‘Why do you cry when you hear this song?’ I used to ask my mom back in the day. ‘You will understand when you grow up,’ she replied.
I think she used to cry to reflect the pain of being Kurdish, landless, suffering from oppression, with no hope in sight.
youtu.be/cDg0aSMrjVw?...
I think she used to cry to reflect the pain of being Kurdish, landless, suffering from oppression, with no hope in sight.
youtu.be/cDg0aSMrjVw?...
I will be a guest poet reading my work and tackling the question of identity then and now for the next Exiled Lit Cafe by Exiled Writers Ink, taking place Tuesday, June 24th, at 19:00 in 49 Great Ormond Street, London, WC1N 3HZ.
June 23, 2025 at 8:24 AM
I will be a guest poet reading my work and tackling the question of identity then and now for the next Exiled Lit Cafe by Exiled Writers Ink, taking place Tuesday, June 24th, at 19:00 in 49 Great Ormond Street, London, WC1N 3HZ.
I am delighted to be invited to read my poetry at this fantastic event celebrating the Syrian community in Ealing, London, this coming Saturday.
June 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I am delighted to be invited to read my poetry at this fantastic event celebrating the Syrian community in Ealing, London, this coming Saturday.
I will facilitate and participate in this event during Refugee Week as part of the Southwark Festival of Words.
June 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I will facilitate and participate in this event during Refugee Week as part of the Southwark Festival of Words.
I will be reading my poetry and participating in a discussion at this great event at Coventry University on the 28th of May:
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May 23, 2025 at 6:59 AM
I will be reading my poetry and participating in a discussion at this great event at Coventry University on the 28th of May:
www.eventsforce.net/cugroup/fron...
www.eventsforce.net/cugroup/fron...
I am delighted to have this piece published by Culture Matters:
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If you are British I am British too – Culture Matters
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May 15, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I am delighted to have this piece published by Culture Matters:
www.culturematters.org.uk/if-you-are-b...
www.culturematters.org.uk/if-you-are-b...
I am honoured to be part of the Ware Poets event this May 9th, where I will read a few of my poems from previous collections and the forthcoming one:
April 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I am honoured to be part of the Ware Poets event this May 9th, where I will read a few of my poems from previous collections and the forthcoming one:
I am delighted to have been interviewed by the Migrant Voice Newspaper.
April 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I am delighted to have been interviewed by the Migrant Voice Newspaper.
Eid Mubarak to all those who celebrate it.
عيد مبارك.
عيد مبارك.
March 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Eid Mubarak to all those who celebrate it.
عيد مبارك.
عيد مبارك.
My latest article on 'Writing, and Exile' has been published by Pulse Magazine @writingeastmidlands.com :
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March 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
My latest article on 'Writing, and Exile' has been published by Pulse Magazine @writingeastmidlands.com :
heyzine.com/flip-book/26...
heyzine.com/flip-book/26...