# Event Details

- **Event Name**: National Year of Reading launch: poetry with Otis Mensah and Danaé Wellington
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 28 Jan, 2026 at 02:00 pm
- **Event Description**: To mark the launch of the National Year of Reading, join us for an afternoon of poetry with former Sheffield Poet Laureates Otis Mensah and Danaé Wellington.

Otis Mensah is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans fields of literature and sound, evoking ethereal portraits of the body, family and race. Following their tenure as the first Poet Laureate of Sheffield, Otis published a debut poetry collection "Safe Metamorphosis". 

Danaé Wellington is a Jamaican-British poet and multidisciplinary artist based in Sheffield. Former Sheffield Poet Laureate (2022–2024), her work spans poetry, music, and film, exploring faith, Black womanhood, and Caribbean diasporic identity.

Photo of Otis credit: stephanie o'connor
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/sheffield/national-year-of-reading-launch-poetry-with-otis-mensah-and-danaé-wellington/200029514005800
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, sports, entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 5

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Sheffield
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Libraries, Archives and Information, Surrey Street, S1 1XZ Sheffield, United Kingdom
- **lat**: 53.37988
- **long**: -1.46694
- **full address**: Libraries, Archives and Information, Surrey Street, S1 1XZ Sheffield, United Kingdom, Far Out Theatre, Sheffield, S1 2, United Kingdom

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is National Year of Reading launch: poetry with Otis Mensah and Danaé Wellington being held?
  - **A:** National Year of Reading launch: poetry with Otis Mensah and Danaé Wellington takes place on Wed, 28 Jan, 2026 at 02:00 pm to Wed, 28 Jan, 2026 at 02:00 pm at Libraries, Archives and Information, Surrey Street, S1 1XZ Sheffield, United Kingdom, Far Out Theatre, Sheffield, S1 2, United Kingdom.
- **Q**: Who is organizing National Year of Reading launch: poetry with Otis Mensah and Danaé Wellington?
  - **A:** National Year of Reading launch: poetry with Otis Mensah and Danaé Wellington is organized by Sheffield Libraries, Archives & Information.

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