Line Break Season

Poets reading, talking and arguing about the line

Yara Khoury2 episodes1 min of audio51 playsEpisodic

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S1 · E2Oct 2, 20260:4226 plays Preview

Translating your grandmother

A Lahore poet and Yara compare notes on translating family speech into poems, moving between Urdu, Arabic and English, and what is lost when a grandmother's sentence becomes a line.

S1 · E1Jul 19, 20260:4125 plays Members

A poem is a room with one window

A Dublin poet who works night shifts in a hospital reads three poems and talks with Yara about the line break, restraint, and writing about patients without using them.

About the show

Line Break Season is a weekly poetry show from Beirut hosted by Yara Khoury, who writes in Arabic and English, edits a small bilingual magazine and runs an open mic that has survived power cuts, protests and one flood. Each 30 minute episode brings one poet into the studio to read two or three poems and then talk about them properly: where the line breaks and why, what was cut, which word was argued over for a month. Guests come from everywhere the network reaches, a Lahore ghazal writer, a Lagos spoken word artist, a Dublin poet who works in a hospital, a Jakarta teenager who posts on her phone. Yara is interested in craft, in translation and in the poem as a made thing, not a mood. The show is for people who write poems and people who are shy about reading them, and for listeners who want 30 minutes of language used carefully. Readings in the original, with Yara translating when needed.

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