National Poetry Day with Kadija Sesay and friends
This event on 5th August 2013 at 19:00 has past.
Contact: 020 7638 0569
Date: 2nd October, 2013
Time: Refreshments at 7pm, starting at 7.30pm prompt
The Barbican Library
Barbican Centre
Silk St, London,
London EC2Y 8DS
Bookings: 020 7638 0569
Kadija Sesay is joined by
Malika Booker, author of Pepper Seed;
and
Sai Murray, author of Ad-Liberation.
Guest host: Dorothea Smartt, author of Ship-Shape.
‘These intimate, searing poems are like touch on the page … Crafted in striking lines, they become her reader’s memories too – close, tender, haunting.’ —Gabeba Baderoon, author of The Dream in the Next Body and A hundred silences.
Kadija Sesay is a poet of Sierra Leonean descent. She is a literary activist who has edited various anthologies by writers of colour and received several awards for her work in the creative arts. She has published poems and short stories in magazines and journals in Africa, the USA and the UK. She is also the publisher of SABLE LitMag and founder of SABLE literary festival in Gambia, where she is building a creative institute.
Entry: Free
Time: 7:00pm
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