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Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi is one of the leading African poets writing in
Arabic today. Famous in his native Sudan, the vivid imagery of his
searing, lyric poems create the world afresh in their yearning for
transcendence. In 2005 Saddiq's poems were first translated into
English by the Poetry Translation Centre for their first World
Poets' Tour. Since then he has received a rapturous reception from
UK audiences. In 2010 a party was organised for him at London's
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology which holds a significant
collection of ancient Sudanese artefacts. As a result of the
success of this event (and earlier visits to the Petrie in 2005 and
2006), he was able to work in the Petrie Museum as their poet in
residence during the summer of 2012. This led to a new book of
poems, He Tells Tales of Meroe: Poems for the Petrie Museum (Poetry
Translation Centre/Petrie Museum, 2015), which was shortlisted for
the Ted Hughes Award. Born in Omdurman Khartoum in 1969, Saddiq has
published four volumes of poetry, including his Collected Poems in
2010. From 2006 he was the cultural editor of Al-Sudani newspaper
until he was forced into exile in 2012. He was granted asylum in
the UK and now lives in London. Arabic-English bilingual edition
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