Award-winning poet - June 27 Meet-up
Written by Community Member Adriana Lord
We'll be joined on June 27 by award-winning poet Akila Richards, with their new book 'Ritual for a Mango' - join us UPSTAIRS at the Actors from 7pm (enter through the door immediately in front of you, as you enter the pub and go up the stairs. FREE!
Akila Richards will be reading and having a discussion about her recently published poetry panflet “Ritual for a Mango” upstairs at our next monthly meet up on the 27th of June 2024.
Do not miss this! You are in for a treat! 😊
Akila Richards is a poet and fiction writer. Her work is published in Covert Magazine,
Mosaic Writers, Penguin, Waterloo Press, Peepal Tree Press and on digital platforms.
Her poetry pamphlet “Ritual for a Mango’ was edited and publishrd by Flipped Eye and launched on 2nd February 2024 at the International Black Speculative Writing Festival at Goldsmith University.
Her recent work features in ‘We Hear You Now’ at South Downs Trust and Wasafiri’s ‘Windrush - Writing the Scandal’.
Akila writes stories that speak to our humanness, of complex lives and deep joy of liberation.
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