Price
- £6.00
Length
- 60
Presented By
- LITFEST
VENUE: The Auditorium, The Storey
In Foretokens, her landmark new collection, Sarah Howe, the 2015 T. S. Eliot Prize-winner for Loop of Jade, navigates the complex inheritance of family, language and colonialism – creating a a portrait of a mother in search of her past and herself.
‘Howe is peerless and I look at her work, happily, with awe’ Ocean Vuong
Litfest Poet in Residence, Karen McCarthy Woolf’s newly published third collection, Unsafe, is a disenchanted walk through the afterlives of colonialism across London and LA.
'One of the most intellectually daring writers of our generation' Mona Arishi
‘A work of intense epiphany… A revelation’ Roger Robinson
Authors:
Sarah Howe is a British poet, academic and editor. Born in Hong Kong to an English father and Chinese mother, she moved to England as a child. Her first collection, Loop of Jade, won the 2015 T.S. Eliot Prize.
Karen McCarthy Woolf is a poet, editor, essayist and librettist. Born in London to English and Jamaican parents, her novel in verse, Top Doll, was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Her poems have been translated into Turkish, Swedish, Spanish, Polish and Dutch.
AGE GUIDANCE: 16+
