CENTRE FOR POETRY AND POETICS, SHEFFIELD: NAT RAHA & IRIS COLOMB

Name: CENTRE FOR POETRY AND POETICS, SHEFFIELD: NAT RAHA & IRIS COLOMB
Start: 2025-03-13T18:15:00+00:00
Location: The Diamond, University of Sheffield

Schedule

Thu, 13 Mar, 2025 at 06:15 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

The Diamond, University of Sheffield | Sheffield, EN

CENTRE FOR POETRY AND POETICS, SHEFFIELD, PRESENTS:
NAT RAHA & IRIS COLOMB
Iris Colomb is a poet, artist, and performer, curator, academic and translator based in London. Her practice explores various relationships between visual and verbal forms of text through projects involving performance, book objects, improvisation, and experimental translation. Iris’ individual, collaborative, interactive, and durational performance works have been showcased across the UK as well as in German, Austrian, Romanian, Norwegian, French and Chilean events and festivals. Publications include pamphlets I’m Shocked (Bad Betty Press, 2018), just promise you won’t write (Gang Press, 2019), Ridiculous Unlikely Attempt (Hesterglock Press, 2023) and Where do you begin in this (Ma Bibliothèque, 2024), as well as inclusions in magazines and anthologies in the UK, Europe, and beyond.

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Dr Nat Raha is a poet and activist-scholar, and Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies at the Glasgow School of Art. Her work is of an experimental queer lyric, attending to the everyday of marginalised lives, hirstories of struggle and resistance to racial capitalism, of humans and the more-than-human. She works through de/re/materialising sound, form and syntax, on the page and in performance.
Her books of poetry include apparitions (nines) (Nightboat Books, 2024), of sirens, body & faultlines (Boiler House Press, 2018), and countersonnets (Contraband Books, 2013). Nat’s work is anthologised in 100 Queer Poems and We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics. Her poetry has been translated in numerous languages. Performance work includes epistolary (on carceral islands), co-commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival, Scotland and TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway, Ireland, 2023.
Recent critical writing appears in Queer Print in Europe, Transgender Marxism (Pluto Press, 2021), New Feminist Literary Studies (CUP, 2020) and Third Text (‘Imagining Queer Europe then and now’, 2021). With Mijke van der Drift, Nat is co-author of Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds (Pluto Press, 2024), co-editor of Radical Transfeminism zine, and co-author of the article ‘“They would plant the rose garden themselves”: Femmeness, Complicity, Solidarity’, published in Social Text.
This is an in-person event but if you can't be there in person you can log in (by 6.15pm) on: meet.google.com/ymc-myyc-sdr
Event curated by Agnes Lehoczky.
For more info: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/centre-for-poetry-and-poetics/events/centre-poetry-and-poetics-sheffield-presents-nat-raha-iris-colomb