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Iran: Bänoo Zan, a War Correspondent in Verse

11.10.2022 - By CBCPlay

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Leaving Iran in 2010 was the first time translator and poet Bänoo Zan was able to fully inhabit a self-described role as "war correspondent in verse." In this conversation with host Nahlah Ayed, the writer in residence at the University of Alberta explores the role of poetry in such moments of upheaval in her home country.

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