Poet Antoine Cassar has taken this experience, of small humiliations at checkpoints, and used it to explore issues of migration, belonging, to imagine what it’s like to be a refugee, to be excluded, in order to write a longform poem called Passaport.
Written in Maltese, it has been translated into many languages and has also been transformed into performances on stage in Malta, Italy and France.
Cassar spoke to Kate Evans at the recent Ubud Writers and Readers’ Festival.”
Passeurs d’hospitalités – Antoine Cassar à Calais
Interview avec Philippe Wannesson
Lampedusa – battered by the winds, gasping for air, on New Internationalist blog, 2015
Freedom and Football – a visit to the Luxembourg detention centre, on New Internationalist blog, 2015
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