Reading: Arji Manuelpillai and Theresa Muñoz
Performers for this event
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Theresa Muñoz
Theresa Muñoz
Theresa Muñoz is Director of the Newcastle Poetry Festival and Research Associate in Contemporary Poetry at Newcastle University. She has published one collection, Settle, which shortlisted for the Melita Hume Poetry Prize. In 2018 she received a Muriel Spark Centenary Award and a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship. In 2020 she received a Creative Scotland Open Fund Award to write one of the first sequences on inter-racial couples in Scotland. In 2022 she was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Sky Arts Award for her creative non-fiction. She is currently working on her second collection, Archivum, which studies our relationship with materials. Her work has appeared in Poetry Review, Canadian Literature, Arc magazine and Best Scottish Poems.
Event Details
We’re delighted to welcome to the main stage Arji Manuelpillai, Jerwood Arvon Prize-winner and author of the powerful collection, Improvised Explosive Device. A fascinating project as well as a moving,
Event Details
We’re delighted to welcome to the main stage Arji Manuelpillai, Jerwood Arvon Prize-winner and author of the powerful collection, Improvised Explosive Device. A fascinating project as well as a moving, ambitious poetry collection, the book emerged from research and interviews with sociologists and former members of extremist political groups, including British fascist organisations and ISIS. Award-winning poet, critic and essayist Theresa Muñoz work also tackles the hard questions of home and belonging, of migration, family and cultural dissonance in her two homes of Vancouver and Edinburgh. These poets navigate with wit and unflinching curiosity some of the most complex and painful questions of contemporary life in this country.
