We are delighted to be welcoming Imtiaz Dharker as guest reader on the opening night of our conference, Friday 8 November.

Imtiaz Dharker is a poet and artist, awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, 2014. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she has been Poet in Residence at Cambridge University Library and worked on several projects across art forms in Leeds, Newcastle and Hull, as well as the Archives of St Paul’s Cathedral. Her six collections include Over the Moon and the latest, Luck is the Hook, and her poems have been broadcast widely on BBC Radio 3 and 4 as well as the BBC World Service. She also scripts and directs video films, and has had eleven solo exhibitions of drawings.

See further conference details here, including the Call for Papers.