Maya Chowdhry and Segun Lee-French, winners of Commonword’s recent ‘30 Poems’ competition, will be launching their debut collections with a joint reading. Maya Chowdhry’s collection, The Seamstress and The Global Garment shows a poet ‘uniquely alive to the possibilities of multiple identities, fused mother tongues and the interweaving of myths’ (Chroma).

Segun Lee-French’s collection Praise Songs For Aliens unveils a poetic voice ‘bathed head and toe in the historical waters of the Negritude champions and in the oeuvre of the great African-American firebrand Amiri Baraka…His words grow tall and strong into magical song’ (Kevin Le Gendre).

This event is taking place at Manchester Central Library, Committee Room. This event is FREE but booking is advisable.