Five Leaves new poetry with Tony Challis, Tara Singh and Ramisha Rafique at Beeston Library

Five Leaves New Poetry celebrates two years of publishing regional poets by launching Tony Challis’s and Tara Singh’s new pamphlets. Tony and Tara will be joined by Ramisha Rafique, whose pamphlet The Postcolonial Flaneuse will be published in the Five Leaves New Poetry series later in the year.

Tony Challis has been writing poetry since the 1980s. For some years he facilitated an LGBT+ writers’ group at Nottingham Writers’ Studio, and in 2018 he was Nottingham Writers’ Studio Poet of the Year. He has been published in a range of regional anthologies, and his prose has appeared in Late Outbursts (2014) and Desire, Love, Identity (2019). He is Chair of Nottingham Poetry Society, and enjoys performing his work at spoken word events.

Tara Singh (they/them) was born in Nairobi and moved to Nottingham as a child. Tara is a queer neurodivergent poet and occasional facilitator. Their work explores the Indian diasporic experience, queerness, gender identity, intergenerational trauma, debilitating mental illness and disability.

Ramisha Rafique is a poet, academic, and founder of Essential Praxis Consulting. She holds a PhD from Nottingham Trent University, where her creative-critical research project titled The Ontology of The Postcolonial Flâneuse: Decolonisation in British Muslim Women’s Writing, combined creative and critical practice to explore the presence of this literary figure in the works on female Muslim writers.

You may also like the following events from Five Leaves Bookshop:

• This Monday, 29th September, 07:00 pm, Fiction Book Group reads Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq in Nottingham
• This Tuesday, 30th September, 07:00 pm, Lost Boys: How Education is Failing Young Working Class Men, with author Alex Blower in Nottingham
• Next Wednesday, 8th October, 07:00 pm, Adventures in poetry, with Andrew Taylor and Cliff Yates in Nottingham

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