Oxford Translation Day – Ghost Letters: A Poetry Reading with Baba Badji
From his own deceased mother, Baba Badji’s Ghost Letters creates a ghost mother who becomes a presiding presence in his first collection of poems. Ghost Letters explores the intimacy of a private experience, focused on the momentary. At the same time, it focuses on a personal awareness of belonging, and in ruptured storylines investigates networks of people in different registers across mortalities, experiences of violence and hospitality, exile, history, and African myth.

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Date: 25 May 2020, 17:00 (Monday, 5th week, Trinity 2020)
Venue: Online
Speaker: Baba Badji
Part of: Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.occt.ox.ac.uk/oxford-translation-day-ghost-letters-poetry-reading-baba-badji
Audience: Public
Editor: Sadie Slater