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Anthony Fisher

Anthony Fisher organises, with his wife Valerie, a monthly poetry event which celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2010. The poets and poetry enthusiasts meet in Salisbury House, a fine 400 year old building from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, located in Enfield, a pleasant suburb of London.

A poem from Sumer
This poem wonders at the origins of written poetry in Sumer and pays tribute to the world’s first named poet, Enheduanna. She was the daughter of King Sargon of Akkad and high-priestess at the temple of the moon-god in the city of Ur in about 2300 BCE.

Lament: Sumer—2300 BC

Once in Sumer

Ghareeb Iskander

Ghareeb Iskander is an Iraqi poet living in London. He seeks his dreams of Baghdad in London's mist, as well as other poetic themes, such as the sea, exile, strangeness, love and sadness.

Gilgamesh’s Snake (in Arabic)

Gilgamesh’s Snake (English trans. M. T. Ali, MCIL)

Nineb Lamassu

Nineb Lamassu is an Assyrian-Iraqi poet and scholar of Mesopotamian languages and literature.
Fluent in five languages, the languages Nineb writes in include his mother-tongue, modern Aramaic.

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