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Celebrating Black and Queer British Poetry: Dean Atta, Adam Lowe and Kayo Chingonyi

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Last event: Thursday 17 November 2022 at 7pm
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  • Garret Theatre

Part of: Chester Literature Festival 2022

Join Dean Atta and Dylan Thomas prize winner Kayo Chingonyi as they discuss their individual works, alongside More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry, edited by Chingonyi, which brings together a wonderful array of outstanding poets and their unique perspectives.

Interviewed by Adam Lowe, the UK’s LGBT+ History Month Poet Laureate and Yorkshire’s Olympic Poet for 2012. He was named one of the ’20 best writers under 40′.

Dean Atta was named one of the most influential LGBT+ people in the UK by The Independent on Sunday.

Dean Atta performs The Black Flamingo 

Kayo Chingonyi reads Guy’s and St Thomas’s 

 

 

Duration

Approx 65 mins

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No interval

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