Reel Iraq at the Golden Hour

Ryan interviews Sinan Antoon...

In this our fifth podcast, Reader in Residence Ryan Van Winkle and Iraqi poet and novelist Sinan Antoon found a break during the Golden Hour to chat about his work, about labels and about which poems he carries with him. Also featuring hip hop track 'Sunshine' from Mammoth, an Edinburgh-based duo.

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First published 26 October, 2009

Sinan Antoon

Sinan Antoon was born in Baghdad and now lives in New York where he teaches Arabic literature and culture at NYU. He's also a poet, a novelist, and a filmmaker, having co-directed and produced a documentary called About Baghdad.

• Sinan Antoon's website

About the Golden Hour

The Golden Hour is a literary cabaret which happens once a month at the Forest, Bristo Place, in Edinburgh. It features prose, poetry, cartoons and music, both bands and individual, from acoustic to punk. It is free.

• More about the Forest

About Mammoth

Mammoth is a rap duo comprised of DK and Scrapdog. The two cartoonists and inter-dimensional visionaries have been writing and recording music since 1996. They've released two albums, The Flexible Dime and Octapoc. They rap about things that are affecting young people today — like aliens, vampires, nuclear war, and Hell.

• www.johncrave.com
  

We recommend...

	The Baghdad Blues by Sinan Antoon Brownsville: Harbour Mountain, 2007 Poems packed with the absence, fury and beauty which ought to make us shake a fist at the skies SPL shelfmark 3.Ant
	The Butterfly's Burden by Mahmoud Darwish, edited by Fady Joudah Bloodaxe, 2007 Whether of landscape or of women - longing, myth and history, using poetry complex with personal experience, Darwish has recreated an entire society's sensibility. SPL shelfmark 3.Mah
	The Golden Hour Volume II + CD Forest Publications (supported by the Scottish Arts Council) Words and sounds within — fine poems, stories, and songs from over three dozen poets, writers and musicians — all of which are guaranteed to take your mind off things. SPL shelfmark 2.41 (20)

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Related links...

• Our Carry a Poem campaign!
• Ryan's website
• Edinburgh Review 127: Iraq issue, featuring Sinan Antoon
• Reel Iraq
  

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