Shrewsbury Abbey – Poetry for Dark Times – HMD 2024

Activity information

Activity type: Public activity

Organisation name: Shrewsbury Abbey

Website: https://www.shrewsburyabbey.com/event/readings-for-holocaust-memorial-day/

Address:
Shrewsbury Abbey
Abbey Foregate
Shrewsbury
Shropshire
SY2 6BS
United Kingdom

A reading of poetry of the Holocaust, and poetry by survivors of other genocides.

There will be two readers, and will will read poems in three sections:
(1) Poems written during the Holocaust in camps and prisons, that speak of imprisonment, freedom, and the desire for freedom;

(2) Poems about life after the Holocaust and the Cambodia genocide, and the killing of Rohingya people, that speak of how survivors are still not free of the shadow of repression;

(3) a few hopeful poems of freedom and love.

Saturday 27th January, Shrewsbury Abbey, 10.30-12.00

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