Christina from Arts4Refugees talked with Cassia- a student journalist with us. This placement was organised by Oxford University Career Services. Cassia is a final year student studying English at New College, Oxford University. She has previous student journalism experience and wanted to use her writing skills to help share the refugee experiences. The arty refugee she chose to research and write about was the Spanish poet Luis Cernuda.
Luis had to leave Spain, his homeland, due to the Spanish Civil War and had to live in exile for the rest of his life. His style of poetry changed throughout his life.Â
You can listen to the full conversation here
Key Points
Cassia is studying English at Oxford
She is researching Luis Cernuda a Spanish poet
Cernuda was open about his homosexual identity within his poetry
Cernuda was a part of the generation of ‘27 (an influential group of Spanish poets in 1923-1927)
He won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry in 2005
If you would like to learn more about Luis - there is a short story by Cassia here.
