The poet and Chris Beckett are the co-editors of a new anthology of poetry published by Carcanet Publishing called Songs We Learn from Trees. His first bilingual collection of poems, Greetings to the People of Europe (Tamrat Books, 2018) includes the script of a sketch commissioned by BBC Radio 4 for a migrant re-imagining of Homer’s Odyssey, My Name is Nobody. His poems have been published in Amharic, Chinese, and English, as well as being projected on buildings in Denmark, Italy, USA, and UK by US artist, Jenny Holzer. ![]() ![]() Songs We Learn from Trees, an Ethiopian poetry anthology edited by Chris Beckett and Alemu Tebeje, which styles itself as the “first in the English language,” launched last week.Īlemu Tebeje is an Ethiopian journalist, poet, and human rights campaigner who left Ethiopia in the early 1990s and now lives in London, UK.
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