David Naimon

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4,074 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 24 Aug

David Naimon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 10 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 3.

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Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry · Hajjar Baban : Low Flying Planes · 24 Aug 2026 podcast

Well, silence and forsakenness is not just or mainly from God in Low Flying Plains. podcast-host

It is in many spheres, from the familial to the geopolitical, to your own ways you employ language on the page. podcast-host

As you say in the poem you you just read, that as the youngest in your family, you were the one without your own memories of your family's history, you alone having to reach podcast-host

back for details that are not known to you through experience. podcast-host

And there's a silence you have that because of that, ev that even your siblings have to a lesser extent, and that feels enacted in the collection, which isn't a collection that is a primer on the history or geopolitical situation for Kurds now or historically. podcast-host

Even a poem with a title like podcast-host

On October thirteenth, Kurdistan's Peshmerga forces went under attack by the Iranian-backed Shia militias near Kirkuk, which might suggest on first encounter with this title, unlike most of your poems, that it's going to narrate a political event, or at least if not narrate a political event, explore one. podcast-host

But this poem too is. podcast-host

Is about silence and absence. podcast-host

It's about what you don't say, quote. podcast-host

I don't actually talk to any of my friends about the politics. podcast-host

I know too much in simple words. podcast-host

And also it's about what you don't know, quote. podcast-host

The only thing I know of the mountains is that when I get there, the sun disappears. podcast-host

I can barely pronounce Kirkuk. podcast-host

I don't podcast-host

know anything about oil or the difference between Shia and Sunni. podcast-host

I don't know the geography of Iraq. podcast-host

I want to hold all of the world and tell my father I put the flag in my room. podcast-host

Nonetheless, while I think one can have a deep experience of your work without knowing more than what you present, I wanted to know more. podcast-host

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