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LGBTQ+ poet Jasmine Gardosi announced as new Birmingham Poet Laureate

Graham Robson October 17, 2022

LGBTQ+ poet Jasmine Gardosi was named as the new Birmingham Poet Laureate for 2022-24 – succeeding Casey Bailey – during a National Poetry Day celebration earlier this month, which also marked the start of this year’s Birmingham Literature Festival. 

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Queer poetry event with Simran Uppal, mandisa apena and Jinhao Xie

Graham Robson July 27, 2022

The event, on Thursday, July 28, will be an evening of poetry readings hosted by Jacob Sam-La Rose and featuring Barbican Young Poets Simran Uppal, mandisa apena and Jinhao Xie, to celebrate the new poetry anthology ‘Articulations for Keeping the Light In’

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REVIEW: Bright Poems for Dark Days by Julie Sutherland

October 23, 2021

Sutherland has amassed an eclectic group of poets here, from uber modern like Carol Ann Duffy & Maya Angelou to weathered classics from John Donne & Emily Dickinson, the range is impressive.  Some fun, frivolous and fancy, others profound & pertinent.  It touches the spot.

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‘No Place for Hate’ – new poem from Andreena Leeanne for National Hate Crime Awareness Week

Graham Robson October 10, 2020

Organisers of #NationalHCAW announce they have commissioned a new poem by Andreena Leeanne, No Place for Hate, for National Hate Crime Awareness Week, which takes place from Saturday, October 10 to Saturday, October 17.

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