Poets with experience of seeking refuge share their writing. Funded by the Arts Council of Ireland. Cover art painting by Shukran Shirzad. Produced by Bairbre Flood.
Wander
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Poets with experience of seeking refuge share their writing. Funded by the Arts Council of Ireland. Cover art painting by Shukran Shirzad. Produced by Bairbre Flood.
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September 18, 2025
Wander Open Call
<p>Congratulations to everyone selected for the Wander 2025 open call competition! Thank you to everyone who sent in poems and I really hope next year to have this again and to offer this space.</p><p><br></p><p>So here are the poems selected:</p><p>Alienated by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mustafa__noah/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Mustafa Noah</a></p><p>How To Be by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/san1man/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Sanjar Qiam</a></p><p>The Dilemma by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hibarasheedpoet/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Hiba Rasheed</a></p><p>Wind Blows Sudden by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/b.3dmah/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">B3dmah</a> </p><p>Caged Bird by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/shazamanlaaa/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Shaza</a></p><p>يحتلك الشيطان (Occupied By The Devil) by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hendjoudat/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Hend Jouda</a></p><p><br></p><p>Produced by Bairbre Flood - <a href="https://bairbreflood.org/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">www.bairbreflood.org</a></p><p>Funded by <a href="https://artscouncil.ie/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">The Arts Council of Ireland</a></p><p><br></p><p>Wander is a podcast that gives spaces to poets with lived experience of seeking refuge, migration or exile.</p>
August 11, 2025
Hend Jouda
<p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/hendjoudat/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Hend Jouda</a> is a writer from Gaza who’s published several poetry collections in Arabic: ‘Someone Always Leaves’, ‘No Sugar in the City’ and ‘Finger Survived’ and also, earlier this year, a collection in Arabic and French called ‘A Poet In Times Of War’. She's the winner of the Wander open call 2025 with her poem 'Occupied By The Devil'.</p><p>Hend was born in <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/29/two-dead-after-crowds-rush-un-aid-warehouse-amid-gaza-hunger-crisis">Al-Bureij refugee camp in Gaza</a> which has been attacked dozens of times by Israel, including a bombing on May 7th of a school where displaced people were seeking shelter - over 33 Palestinian civilians were murdered. The school was targeted twice.</p><p>Whatever you can do to stop this genocide, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Action">do it</a>. Free Palestine. Saoirse don Phalaistin.</p><p>Produced by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/bairbreflood/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Bairbre Flood</a> - all episodes at <a href="https://www.bairbreflood.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">www.bairbreflood.org</a></p><p><br></p><p>With thanks to the Arts Council of Ireland for their funding support.</p>
July 13, 2025
Fionnuala O'Connell
<p>Youth project worker, poet, and visual artist, Fionnuala O'Connell has worked for many years to support young people through activities and capacity building.</p><p>She reads her poems, ‘I'm Sorry’, ‘Mother Tongue’ and 'Article 6’ (inspired by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child) -</p><p>'You can't eat your rights. You can't hold your rights on top of you to keep you warm or shaded from the sun. You can't wrap your rights around you when your parents have died.'</p><p>We talk about her mother in Liberia and how she writes about what she sees happening in the world right now.</p><p>'You see how things are landing, you can see the other side of things in real time and sometimes I find that kind of a bit difficult to deal with because it brings up issues of justice and equality and equity and poverty.'</p><p>And she emphasises the importance of empathy and care in political poetry.</p><p>'I think a lot of the time I try to just see the person, see the picture. Picture what's happening in the most simplest form. To connect to what's happening.'</p><p><br><a href="https://www.instagram.com/fionnuala_oco/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><br></a></p><p>With thanks to the<a href="https://artscouncil.ie/"> Arts Council of Ireland</a> for funding support.<br>Produced by Bairbre Flood : <a href="https://www.instagram.com/bairbreflood" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">@bairbreflood</a> // <a href="https://www.bairbreflood.org" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">bairbreflood.org</a></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
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