Momtaza Mehri 'Bad Diaspora Poems' Book Launch and Talk
Thu 29 Jun
|London
Somali-British poet Momtaza Mehri heritage talk and the launch of her book, Bad Diaspora Poems
Time & Location
29 Jun 2023, 19:30 – 22:00
London, Rowington Cl, London W2 5TF, UK
About the event
Young Poet Laureate Momtaza Mehri hosts a gathering and reading of her tender, searing and satirical debut poetry collection Bad Diaspora Poems
Momtaza Mehri is a Somali-British poet and independent researcher working across criticism, translation, anti-disciplinary research practices, education, and radio. She is a former Young People’s Poet Laureate for London and Frontier-Antioch Fellow at Antioch University (Los Angeles). Her writing has appeared in the likes of POETRY, Granta, Vogue, The Guardian, Bidoun, and The White Review. A former Columnist-in-Residence at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s Open Space, she has also completed residencies at St. Paul’s Cathedral and the British Library.
The definition of diaspora is the dispersion of any people from their original homeland. But what does it mean to write diaspora poetry? Bad Diaspora Poems traces the ripples of movement and displacement to and from the Horn of Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth…