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Derby Poetry Festival welcomes Roger Robinson, Mary Jean Chan, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan and Jasmine Gardosi to The Wardwick, at Derby Museum and Art Gallery, for what is sure to be an incredible evening of poetry and performance.
Headline Event with Roger Robinson, Mary Jean Chan, Jasmine Gardosi and Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan
Saturday 5th October 2024
The Wardwick, Derby Museum and Art Gallery
7 pm
For our headline event, Derby Poetry Festival welcomes Roger Robinson, Mary Jean Chan, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan and Jasmine Gardosi to The Wardwick, at Derby Museum and Art Gallery, for what is sure to be an incredible evening of poetry and performance.
Roger Robinson is The Critically Acclaimed Author Of A Portable Paradise, a stirring collection which won both the T.S. Eliot Prize and The Royal Society Of Literature Ondaatje Prize in 2019 and 2020 respectively.
Mary Jean Chan is the author of Flèche (Faber & Faber, 2019), which won the Costa Book Award for Poetry. Bright Fear (Faber, 2023). Chan’s second book, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the Writers’ Prize, and is currently shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize.
Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan is a poet and writer whose work disrupts assumptions about history, race, violence and knowledge. She is the author of Tangled in Terror and the poetry collection Postcolonial Banter; a co-author of A FLY Girl’s Guide to University; and a contributor to the anthologies Cut from the Same Cloth? and I Refuse to Condemn. Her writing has also featured in The Guardian and Al Jazeera, and her poetry has been viewed millions of times online.
Jasmine Gardosi is the Birmingham Poet Laureate and Honorary Doctor of Letters. She is a multiple slam champion, beatboxer, winner of the Out-Spoken Prize for Poetry and winner of the Saboteur Award for Best Spoken Word Performer 2023.
Derby Poetry Festival is made possible due to support from by Arts Council England and Derby City Council.
The full festival programme can be found HERE
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