Reading with Amir Shaheen - "Residual Light Traces" and more

With his sixth volume of poetry, Amir Shaheen will give a reading on March 1st in his hometown of Altena. Divided into three groups, it brings together around sixty poems, including the poem “Sediment” for the first time in a book, for which Amir Shaheen was awarded the postpoetry.nrw prize in November 2018.

You can get tickets in the Katherlöh bookstore or in the Altena city library.

Amir Shaheen follows the tracers of light in our time and also detects the residual light on darker days. Seas, roads, departures and farewells, elapsing and badly used days, the time that one never had or that still remains, the ephemeral, the futile, home or being homeless are recurring images and motifs in this collection.

Beyond observation and description, far beyond what has been lived or experienced, some poems point to the spiritual - not least the "Sediment", which was awarded the postpoetry.nrw prize.