“…you have now been welcomed into a vast and honoured company of imprisoned writers…” Alberto Manguel writes to Mahavash Sabet
Dear Mahvash Sabet, It’s almost an impertinence, I feel, to write to a poet who is being kept behind bars for her words and beliefs. King Lear, imprisoned at the end of the play with his daughter Cordelia, tells her that they will become “God’s spies”. That is what you…