Hashem Shafiq began publishing poetry in the early 1970s in Iraqi, Arabic, and international literary journals. He is also a fiction and poetry critic and the founding director of the Iraqi House of Poetry in London.

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The great change in Iraq in the spring of 2003 allowed the voices of the country’s poets to be newly heard. Here are three of the poems Hashem Shafiq read at a moving Iraqi poetry event in London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts.