Name: Exiled Writers Ink presents VOICES ACROSS GENERATIONS
Start: 2026-05-20T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-05-20T21:30:00+01:00
Location: 49 Great Ormond St

Exiled Writers Ink presents VOICES ACROSS GENERATIONS

The event aims to weave together poetic voices of different generations of exiles and build bridges between our past and present.
About this Event

VOICES ACROSS THE GENERATIONS
Hear the poetic voices of first, second and third generation refugee and migrant poets and join in the discussion.

with six amazing poets:
Catherine Temma Davidson is a dual citizen with Californian roots from a Greek and Jewish immigrant background. Author of the novels, The Priest Fainted and The Orchard, she has published poetry and essays on both sides of the Atlantic. She is a creative facilitator and teaches at Regent’s University. She is an Exiled Writers Ink patron.

Stephen Duncan is a poet and sculptor, He is the son of the poet Beata Duncan who escaped from Nazi Germany, and the grandson of the Weimar playwright Hans Rehfisch. He will explore these generational connections and the creative experience of the refugee and of 'creation in a time of destruction', part of a creative collaboration in Kyiv with Ukrainian sculptors in solidarity with their country.

Lily Jamaludin is a Malaysian human rights campaigner and writer based in London. She won the Mercedes-Benz Creative Excellence award in 2017 for her short play "Our Compliance" in the Short+Sweet Malaysia theatre festival and was featured as an Emerging Writer in the 2018 George Town Literary Festival. Her works have been published in anthologies.

Kamal Mirawdeli is a British/Kurdish poet, thinker and writer. He has published three poetry collections in English: Passage to Dawn (2002), Kurdish Odyssey (2021) and Poesophical Visison and Works- Anthology (2026). His latest philosophical work in English is Unlocking Existence in a Grain of Salt- Phonetic Ontology of Xoda and Ezda (2026).

Marina Sanchez is a mix of Indigenous Mexican and Spanish. She is an award-winning poet and translator, widely published in literary journals and anthologies. She is one of four Latinx female writers featured in Wasafiri’s January 2026 issue showcasing British Latinx Writing & Art. Suhrab Sirat is a poet, writer and journalist who works for the BBC World Service. Born in 1990, in Afghanistan, Suhrab came to the UK as a political refugee in 2014. His poems and literary essays have been widely published across Persian speaking countries. He won several awards in Afghanistan and represented Afghanistan at the Rio International Literary Festival in 2013. His first poetry collection in English is The Eighth Crossing (Exiled Writers Ink, 2021).