Choman Hardi is a contemporary Kurdish poet, translator and painter. Ms Hardie is the youngest child of Kurdish poet Ahmed Hardi. After several stages of forced displacement, she was granted refugee status in England in 1993. She studied at Oxford, London, and Kent universities and her post-doctoral research saw her return to Kurdistan to document the plight of female survivors of Anfal. She began writing poetry at the age of 20, producing, ‘Life for Us’ and the moving, ‘Considering the Women’, which explores the relationship between immigrants and their homeland, and the plight of women in an aggressive, patriarchal society and as survivors of political violence. The work received a Recommendation from the Poetry Book Society and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best collection. 

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Considering the Women: Listen as Kurdish poet and translator Choman Hardi reads from her latest poetry collection Consideringthe Women, a collection exploring the equivocal relationship between immigrants and their homeland. (2019)