Global Festival: An Evening of Poetry and Music Exploring History, Heritage and Language

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Rachel Long is a poet and the founder of Octavia - poetry collective for womxn of colour which is housed at The Southbank Centre, in London. Her debut poetry collection, My Darling from the Lions, is published by Picador. Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2021, Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2021, Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2021, Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2020 Shortlisted, for the The Forward Prize Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection 2020. Shortlisted for this year's Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award. Click here to find her work 

Cecilia Knapp is a poet, playwright and novelist and the Young People’s Laureate for London 2020/2021. She is the winner of the 2021 Ruth Rendell award and has been shortlisted for the Rebecca Swift Women’s prize and the Outspoken poetry prize. Her debut novel Little Boxes is forthcoming from The Borough Press (Harper Collins.) Click here to find her work

Raymond Antrobus is a British Jamaican author of To Sweeten Bitter (Out-Spoken Press 2017), The Perseverance (Penned in the Margins 2018) and All The Names Given (Picador 2021). His first children's picture book Can Bears Ski? was published in 2021. In 2019 Raymond was awarded the Rathbones Folio Prize for best work of literature in any genre, the first poet to receive the prize. Other accolades include the Ted Hughes Award, Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and a Guardian Poetry Book of the Year. His poetry books have been shortlisted for the Griffin Prize, T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize. Click here to find his work

Gboyega Odubanjo was born and raised in east London and is an editor of the poetry magazine Bath Magg and Magma Poetry. He is the author of two poetry pamphlets, While I Yet Live (Bad Betty Press, 2019) and Aunty Uncle Poems (Poetry Business, 2021). In 2021, Odubanjo was a recipient of the Eric Gregory Award and the Michael Marks Award for Poetry Pamphlets. Click here to find his work

Fathima Zahra is an Indian poet. She is a Barbican Young Poet and a Roundhouse Poetry Collective alumna. Her debut pamphlet ‘Sargam / Swargam’ was published in 2021 (ignition press). Zahra is a Barbican Young Poet and Roundhouse Poetry Collective alum. She won the Wells Festival of Literature Young Poets Prize and the Bridport Prize and a shortlistee for the Outspoken Poetry Prize and the Women Poets’ Prize. Click here to find her work

Asthmatic Harp is the musical moniker of Oxford based songwriter and composer Hannah Fredsgaard-Jones. Playing both the ethereal autoharp and guitar. She is an alumnus of the prestigious Roundhouse Resident Artist Program. Her latest EP was featured on BBC6 Music and Danish National Radio and added in rotation on Uniradioen (DK) and KB Radio (CA). She is a UK New Artist and an Oxford Contemporary Music Boom Fellow 2022. Click here to find her work

Jinhao Xie, born in Chengdu, is interested in nature, the mundane, the interpersonal. They are a current member of Southbank Centre New Poets Collective and Barbican Young Poets. They are the inaugural champion of Asia House Poetry slam 2018.  Click here to find their work

Prerana Kumar is an Indian poet who has recently completed her MA in Creative Writing at UEA. She has recently been poet-in-residence for Poetry Business and been shortlisted for Nine Arches Press' Primers scheme. Click here to find her work

*If you want to invite your friends or family who do not attend KU, they are able to purchase tickets on the door.*