AWW23: Mother Tongue, Motherland & Motherlessness - Julia Cimafiejeva
Chair: Jill Jones
\nJulia Cimafiejeva is a Belarusian poet and translator now living in exile. Through poems that are intensely personal and political, she explores language and its limits. Cimafiejeva opens up about her childhood in a Chernobyl zone, her insistence on self-determination in a deeply authoritarian state and the despair and guilt she feels in fleeing.
\nEvent details: Sun 05 Mar, 12pm on the North Stage