Grace Nichols & Mae Diansangu
University Of Aberdeen
King's College
Aberdeen
AB24 3FX
Join two sensational Black poets from near and afar for an evening of poetry and discussion.
Poetry legend Grace Nichols will share work from across four decades of her award-winning career exploring Caribbean-British connections. Aberdonian poet Mae Diansangu launches her debut, Bloodsongs , which disrupts colonial and heteronormative conceptions of the past by giving voice to long-overlooked queer, Black and feminist perspectives in Doric and English.
Grace Nichols was born and educated in Guyana. She has been living in Britain since 1977 and since then has written many books for both adults and children. Her first poetry collection, I Is A Long-Memoried Woman , won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Other collections include The Fat Black Woman’s Poems (1984) and Sunris (1996), winner of the Guyana Prize, and Passport to Here and There (2020), a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. She was made a Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020. In 2022 she was awarded The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry by Her Majesty the Queen.
Mae Diansangu is a Black, queer poet and spoken word artist from Aberdeen who writes to continue conversations started by people who are now long gone. Her debut collection Bloodsongs will be published by Tapsalteerie this autumn. She has performed at literary festivals across Scotland and appeared on BBC Scotland's Big Scottish Book Club and BBC Radio 4's Tongue and Talk. She writes in both English and Doric.
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Sep. 28, 2024 7:00pm
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