Digital Event

• • 18th February at 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Online
  • Tickets - Free/Donations

Most folk carry more than one language, and many of us use different ways of speaking in different communities. Different languages can give us different ways of thinking, feeling and belonging, but it’s not always easy to feel at home in the languages you use. Can poetry come from the tricky gaps between our ways of communicating?

In this event, Guest Curator Harry Josephine Giles brings together poets who have nimbly mixed languages in their work to make poetry that brings alive their ways of thinking. Raman Mundair is writer, filmmaker, and activist based in Shetland and Glasgow, whose poetry has incorporated Scots into searching explorations of politics and home. Raymond Antrobus is a poet, educator and investigator of missing sounds, who has used sign language and closed captioning in his enlivening and lyrical poetry.

Part of Minding Language, a series of events curated by Harry Josephine Giles.