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We are very excited to announce that Nat Raha and Verity Spott will give a seminar and poetry reading in the Judith E Wilson Drama Studio (17:00-18:15 seminar / 18.20-19:00 reading).
Nat Raha is a poet and trans* / queer activist, living in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her poetry includes two collections: 'countersonnets' (Contraband Books, 2013), and 'Octet' (Veer Books, 2010); and numerous pamphlets including 'de/compositions' (Enjoy Your Homes Press, 2017), '£/€xtinctions' (sociopathetic distro, 2017), '[of sirens / body & faultlines]' (Veer Books, 2015), and 'mute exterior intimate' (Oystercatcher Press, 2013). She has performed and published her work internationally. She is undertaking a PhD in Creative & Critical Writing at the University of Sussex. Nat's essay 'Transfeminine Brokenness, Radical Transfeminism' has recently been published in the South Atlantic Quarterly. Her paper will be on 'A Queer Marxist [Trans]Feminism: Queer and Trans Social Reproduction'.
"since the soul in our poetic-
falls onto / echoed fabric
composite creolite britain is
orchestrations / cultural
breath divested // dips glottals
that they believe in their whiteness
viral fictions & departments
monodrama / & image
, interiors , customs &&; screens"
Verity Spott is a poet, support worker, performer and musician from Hove, England. Books include 'Trans* Manifestos' (Shit Valley, 2015), 'The Mutiny Aboard the RV Felicity' (Tipped Press, 2017), 'Click Away Close Door Say' (Contraband Books. 2017), 'We Will Bury You' (Veer Books, 2017), and 'Gideon' (Barque Press, 2014).
"Ahead of you is a perfect sequence of rational and professionally state sanctioned grills, routers and sieves. Behind you is a repressed derangement of habitation. Inside you, a screaming barb of lyric, passion, expression and defiance. Now sit tight for the probe. 'I never said that I was brave.' "
