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17:30 - 18:30pm. FREE.

The Rebecca Swift Foundation, home of the biennial #WomenPoetsPrize and the #WomenPoetsNetwork, hosts an online reading from their three 2020 prize winners Alisha Dietzman, Natalie Linh Bolderston and Warda Yassin. The readings and discussions will be followed by a brand new music/poem collaboration from each poet, composed by Bristol based music duo Open Collab. www.rebeccaswiftfoundation.org

Alisha Dietzman received her MFA in Poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she held a Martha Meier Renk Distinguished Graduate Fellowship. She is a PhD candidate in Divinity focusing an Aesthetics and Ethics at the University of St Andrews, supported by a grant from the US-UK Fulbright Commission. Her poetry has appeared in or is forthcoming from Ploughshares, Pain, Hotel, and the Chicago Review, among others.

Natalie Linh Bolderston is a Vietnamese-Chinese-British poet. In 2020, she received an Eric Gregory Award and co-won the Rebecca Swift Women Poets’ Prize. In 2021, she was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. She is an alumna of the Roundhouse Poetry Collective and the London Library Emerging Writers Programme. Her pamphlet, The Protection of Ghosts, is published with V. Press. She is now working on her first full- length collection.

Warda Yassin is an award-winning British born Somali poet and secondary school teacher based in Sheffield. She was a winner of the 2018 New Poets Prize for her debut pamphlet Tea with Cardamom (Poetry Business, published 2019). Her poetry has been published in places including The North, Magma and Oxford Poetry, and anthologised in Verse Matters (Valley Press), Anthology X (Smith|Doorstop), Halfway Smile and Surfing the Twilight (Hive). In October 2020 she took on the role of Sheffield Poet Laureate.

Part of Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival 2022.

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