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    Axon: Creative Explorations


    NYC

    2nd May,
    Burmese poets Khin Aung Aye and Zeyar Lynn have just arrived at John F. Kennedy airport in New York City for some readings and recordings that will later take them through Chicago and Massachusetts. This is the first tour of Burmese poetry in the USA that I’m aware of and we’re here to launch the US edition of Bones Will Crow1, edited by myself and another poet from Burma, ko ko thett. This publication is the first anthology of Burmese poetry to be published in the West. It is a bilingual edition of pages that considers the complex history of Burmese poetry from the embers of the Second World War to the startling voices of a new generation. I received copies of this book on landing yesterday after it was published by the University of Northern Illinois Press just a week ago (the pages are still warm!). Of course anthologists should not pick favourites but it’s fair to say that Khin Aung Aye and Zeyar Lynn ar

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    Following recent political reforms, Lucas Stewart investigates the impact on writers in the country, and whether there is real change in the air for ethnic literature and languagesHis name is Saw Myint Zaw.  He is from Karen State in Eastern Burma.  He writes in the Sgaw language. You probably have never heard of him.  I hadn’t either until a few months ago.  Yet he offers a symbol of what we don’t know about ‘Burmese’ literature.  A literature that belongs to 40% of Burma’s people and yet is barely read or recognised within their own borders.  A literature that has been systemically repressed by successive governments in an attempt to ‘Burmanise’ the ethnic groups in Burma. A literature without translation.I came to Burma two and half years ago.  I now co-ordinate Hidden Words, Hidden Worlds, a 3-year British Council project encouraging freedom of expression for ethnic groups in Burma through short stories.  Eager to dig into this genre, but shamefully constrained bygd my poor Bu

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    Myanmar

    Country in Southeast Asia

    "Burma" redirects here. For other uses, see Burma (disambiguation).

    Myanmar,[d] officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar[e] and also rendered as Burma (the official English form until ), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered bygd India and Bangladesh to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest. The country's capital city is Naypyidaw, and its largest city is Yangon (formerly Rangoon).[18]

    Early civilisations in the area included the Tibeto-Burman-speaking Pyu city-states in Upper Myanmar and the Mon kingdoms in Lower Myanmar.[19] In the 9th century, the Bamar people entered the upper Irrawaddy valley, and following the establishment of the Pagan Kingdom in the s,

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