Marjorie Lotfi on poetry and the refugee experience: 'my past is always present'

Marjorie Lotfi on poetry and the refugee experience: 'my past is always present'

Marjorie Lotfi’s family fled Iran with one suitcase and an hour’s notice during the Iranian Revolution. A prize-winning poet, she is involved with three events at this year’s Wigtown Book Festival. Here she explores the relationship between poetry, exile, the refugee experience and political resistance