Poems with Alycia Pirmohamed,

Canisia Lubrin, Helen Charman and Sandeep Parmar

This session will be broadcast live at 7:30pm on Sunday 29 November. Watch the broadcast on this page, on Solas Festival Facebook or on YouTube.

Join us for an hour of poems from four brilliant poets - coming to you live from around the world.

ALYCIA PIRMOHAMED
is the author of the pamphlets Faces that Fled the Wind (BOAAT Press) and Hinge (ignitionpress), a Poetry Book Society recommendation. She is the co-founder of the Scottish BAME Writers Network, and her awards include the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award, a Pushcart Prize, the 2019 CBC Poetry Contest, and others. Find her online at alycia-pirmohamed.com and on Twitter @a_pirmohamed

SANDEEP PARMAR
is Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool where she co-directs Liverpool’s Centre for New and International Writing. She holds a PhD from University College London and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. Her books include Reading Mina Loy’s Autobiographies: Myth of the Modern, an edition of the Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees (Carcanet, 2011), and two books of her own poetry published by Shearsman: The Marble Orchard and Eidolon, winner of the Ledbury Forte Prize for Best Second Collection. She also edited the Selected Poems of Nancy Cunard (Carcanet, 2016). She is a BBC New Generation Thinker and co-founder of the Ledbury Poetry Critics scheme for poetry critics of colour.

HELEN CHARMAN
is a writer and academic based in Glasgow. Her second pamphlet Daddy Poem was shortlisted for the 2019 Ivan Juritz Prize; her latest, In the Pleasure Dairy, is published by Sad Press. Her first nonfiction book, Mother State, is forthcoming from Allen Lane. She teaches English Literature at Durham University, and is an associate member of staff at Camberwell College of Arts and the Glasgow School of Art. As resident commissioning editor at MAP magazine, she is running the year-long TENANCY project.

CANISIA LUBRIN
Writer, critic, editor, and teacher Canisia Lubrin grew up in St. Lucia. She studied at York University and earned an MFA at the University of Guelph. Lubrin is the author of the poetry collections The Dyzgraphxst (2020) and Voodoo Hypothesis (2017), which was named a CBC Best Poetry Book and shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award. Lubrin was a 2019 writer-in-residence at Queens University and has taught in the English department at Humber College. She has worked as an arts administrator and a community advocate for nearly 20 years.