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Protests, provocations, great food and a BVG musical. These are our editors' cultural highlights of Berlin in 2023.

We spoke with award-winning translator, essayist and poet Uljana Wolf ahead of the publication of her debut poetry collection.

A Poetry Revival: Three Poets on Ethiopia’s Thriving Amharic Poetry Scene Published by Carcanet Press in the UK last year, Songs We Learn from Trees is the first book of Amharic poetry in English translation. Editors Chris Beckett and Alemu Tebeje, themselves poets and translators, present over 250 pages of poetry ranging from folk and religious verse to work by contemporary and diaspora poets. While the anthology provides a representative survey of poems in Amharic, it is still only the tip of the iceberg, opening the door for readers to imagine how much more Ethiopian poetry remains to b...

Prairie Schooner, and Verse Daily. In 2017, Saddiq was a finalist for the Brunel International African Poetry Prize. He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska where he is currently studying for a PhD in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. INTRODUCTION As a writer, dedicated to a life of writing, reading nudges you to invest a profound relationship with books which shows up as a deep level of respect for the writer’s effort, since the toil of producing a work of art is one that you relate with intimately. This also trains us to see the world through another’s eyes, since we are constrained...