This event also serves as the unofficial launch party of Poetry International festival, which features global voices and responds to themes of the natural world and the climate crisis.

Tishani Doshi has published seven books of fiction and poetry, the most recent of which are a novel, Small Days and Nights (Bloomsbury), shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Award and a New York Times Bestsellers Editor’s Choice; and a collection of poems, A God at the Door (Bloodaxe Books), shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize 2021. For 15 years she worked as the lead dancer with the Chandralekha group in Madras, India.

Rebecca Goss is a poet, tutor and mentor living in Suffolk. Her second collection, Her Birth, was shortlisted for the 2013 Forward Prize for Best Collection, won the Poetry category in the East Anglian Book Awards 2013, and shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Writing and the Portico Prize for Literature. Goss’ third collection, Girl, was shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards 2019. She is the winner of the Sylvia Plath Prize 2022. Her next collection, Latch, is published with Carcanet in 2023.

Momtaza Mehri is a poet and independent researcher working across criticism, translation, anti-disciplinary research practices, education and radio. She is a former Young People’s Laureate for London and Frontier-Antioch Fellow at Antioch University, Los Angeles. Her writing has appeared in POETRY, Granta, Vogue, The Guardian, Bidoun and The White Review. A former Columnist-in-Residence at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s Open Space, she has also completed residencies at St Paul’s Cathedral and the British Library.

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