The People Powered Press in Saltaire, Shipley returns with our regular Poets Inc night — for the first time curated by Bradford Literature Festival and featuring Christina Wilson, Maria Ferguson & Gav Cross.
Tickets available via the Bradford Literature Festival Website here: bradfordlitfest.co.uk/event/poets-inc/
This popular Pay as You Feel event showcases established and emerging voices, alongside a chance to make your own letterpress print to take away, featuring the words from poems read on the night.
The event is happening outside of its usual ‘last Thursday of the month’ slot to be part of the Bradford Literature Festival’s programme for the first time — a collaboration we’re really excited for.
Christina Wilson
Christina is a development librarian, poet, hiker, and mother based in West Yorkshire. She worked on her first poetry collection as part of her AHRC funded doctoral research, exploring parenting, identity and the experience of feeling ‘other’. Her collection ‘What Do We Hold’ (unpublished) reveals the joys and frustrations of living in a neurodiverse household, challenging some of the dominant narratives around mothering and presenting mothering, like writing, as a process of exploration.
Maria Ferguson
Maria Ferguson is a writer and performer. Her poetry has been widely anthologised and published in literary magazines such as Magma, The Rialto, The North and The Poetry Review. She was a finalist of the Montreal International Poetry Prize and her debut collection, Alright, Girl? (Burning Eye, 2020), was Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes. On the stage, Fat Girls Don’t Dance won a Saboteur Award; Essex Girl was shortlisted for the Tony Craze Award and won Show of the Week at VAULT Festival. Her second poetry collection, Swell is published by Penguin R
Gav Cross
Gav Cross is a storyteller that gets away with shouting at families and grown-ups for a living.
Often found lurking around the worst corners of a Ghost Story, Nursery Rhyme or Fairy Tale, Gav assures you that the tears of his audience are usually from laughter and not terror.
Christina is a development librarian, poet, hiker, and mother based in West Yorkshire. She worked on her first poetry collection as part of her AHRC funded doctoral research, exploring parenting, identity and the experience of feeling ‘other’. Her collection ‘What Do We Hold’ (unpublished) reveals the joys and frustrations of living in a neurodiverse household, challenging some of the dominant narratives around mothering and presenting mothering, like writing, as a process of exploration.
