Landays: Poems of Afghan Rebellion

Lyse Doucet, the BBC's Chief International Correspondent and regular visitor to Afghanistan, talks to female Afghan poets about the landay: a 22 syllable Pashtun verse form they create, perform and share to speak of love, sex, war and hardship. Translator and editor Eliza Griswold describes her discovery of this oral tradition, which led to a project to collect and publish some of these anonymous poems.

Landays read by Shala Nyx
Translated interview voiced by Yasmin Mwanza

Landays translated by Eliza Griswold and published in I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan (Farrar, Strauss, Giroux)

Made with the assistance of journalist and translator Zarghuna Kargar

Produced by Emma Harding, BBC Audio Wales