Kaveh Akbar & Seán Hewitt: Pilgrim Bell
Tuesday 15 March 2022, 7 p.m. · 52 minutes![](https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/300_filter/images/4/2/6/8/3728624-1-eng-GB/Kaveh%20Akbar.jpg 300w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/400_filter/images/4/2/6/8/3728624-1-eng-GB/Kaveh%20Akbar.jpg 400w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/800_filter/images/4/2/6/8/3728624-1-eng-GB/Kaveh%20Akbar.jpg 800w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/1200_filter/images/4/2/6/8/3728624-1-eng-GB/Kaveh%20Akbar.jpg 1200w)
Back in March 2018 Iranian-born Kaveh Akbar launched his debut collection Calling a Wolf a Wolf with us at the Bookshop. (Listen to the podcast here.) This year, he joined us again, though only in digital form, for his second, Pilgrim Bell (Chatto), a rich and moving collection which explores issues of ambivalence around ethnicity, national identity and religious belief.
He read a selection from his work, and discussed it with Seán Hewitt, fellow poet and author of Tongues of Fire and forthcoming memoir All Down Darkness Wide (Cape).
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