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SUMMARY:Voiced & IMLD26: Polari and Poetry in Manchester
DESCRIPTION:Voiced\, the UK’s first creative festival for endangered languages\, presents an unmissable evening of Queer poetry and performance.\nPresenting Polari\, a hidden language of Queer experience\, which will come to life in performance with Jez Dolan. Rosie Garland performs poems from Polari Prize-shortlisted What Girls do in the Dark and her recently published This Is How I Fight\, an Observer Poetry Book of the Month. And poet afshan d’souza-lodhi
explores Queer language through her mother tongue Konkani\, a minority and national language in India. Join us for this electric evening exploring the intersections of Queer languages\, poetry and performance. \nAbout Voiced \nThis event is part of the Voiced: The Festival of Endangered Languages. Through poetry\, performance\, talks\, live events and visual art\, the festival brings together a remarkable line-up of artists whose work marks the vast impact art has on language and language has on art. Co-Curated by Sam Winston and Chris McCabe\, please see the full programme on the pages below. \nAbout the performers \nRosie Garland has a passion for language nurtured by public libraries. An award-winning poet\, novelist and short story writer\, she is frontwoman for post-punk band The March Violets. Her four historical novels include The Night Brother\, described by The Times as “a delight…with shades of Angela Carter” & The Fates\, her queer retelling of Greek myth. Latest poetry collection This Is How I Fight was Observer Poetry Book of the Month. Val McDermid named her one of the UK’s most compelling LGBT+ writers\, & in 2023 she was made Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/voiced-imld26-polari-and-poetry-in-manchester/
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CATEGORIES:Heritage,Poetry
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