Voiced: Polari & Poetry in Manchester

Presenting Polari, a hidden language of Queer experience, which will come to life in performance with Jez Dolan. Rosie Garland performs poems from Polari Prize-shortlisted What Girls do in the Dark and her recently published This Is How I Fight, an Observer Poetry Book of the Month. And poet afshan d’souza-lodhi explores Queer language through her mother tongue Konkani, a minority and national language in India.

Join us for this electric evening exploring the intersections of Queer languages, poetry and performance.

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Host or Publisher Manchester City of Literature