Book launch: Keep Telling of Gaza

Book launch: Keep Telling of Gaza

Social Sciences Hub
Date: Thursday 05 December 2024
Time: 16:00 - 17:00
Venue: Online
Category: Public lectures, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events
Speaker: Dr Khawla Badwan (Manchester Metropolitan University), Professor Alison Phipps (University of Glasgow), and more tba
Website: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-keep-telling-of-gaza-tickets-1080347461339?aff=oddtdtcreator

Join us for the online launch of Khawla Badwan and Alison Phipps' poetry book Keep Telling of Gaza. This is a chance to hear the authors read from the book and talk about the process and the editing work by Sídhe Press.

PROGRAMME:
Word of welcome
Book presentation by Khawla Badwan & Alison Phipps
Readings by various authors
Space for Q&A

“We refuse to take refuge in cynicism. We refuse to settle with the commonly used sentence to refer to Gaza: there are no words left. We do not admire those who shred truth and profiteer from propaganda. We know the difference. We take it upon ourselves to find words even when our words are fatigued, repeated, exhausted and overused. We refuse to state that we ‘are so tired’ but instead to find words every day. This is our task. We are workers with words. Many of our words amplify the cries of wailing mothers and fathers, screaming children, and horrified witnesses. As we sit with these horrors, we respond in poetic cries that are stunned and stunning.”

All proceeds of this book are going towards supporting educational initiatives in Gaza. Link to buy the book: sidhe-press.eu/books/keep-telling-of-gaza/

The book is published by Sídhe Press. Sídhe Press started off in 2022 as a one-woman press based in Berlin, run by Annick Yerem. Meanwhile it has grown into a team of many people without whom it would not be the press it is. It is completely self-funded, they receive no grants or membership fees. This means that for now they are running on a pay-what-you-can basis. You can support them here: https://ko-fi.com/annickyerem. Sídhe aspires to be a safe space. This means that they will not tolerate writers who are racist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic or discriminate against anyone in any way. They work with KDP publishing.

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