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Jun
17
Windrush Day, I Have Crossed An Ocean: Grace Nichols and Karen McCarthy Woolf
June 17, 2018 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Part of Windrush Day with Hannah Lowe
Join us at Keats House on 17 June as we celebrate the poetic legacies of the arrival of the Empire Windrush 70 years ago.
I Have Crossed An Ocean: Grace Nichols and Karen McCarthy Woolf
Two distinguished poets will be reading work that explores border crossings and women’s lives. Grace Nichols is an award-winning Guyanese poet and children’s writer, who arrived in Britain in 1977. Karen McCarthy Wolf has born in London to British and Jamaican parents. Her two poetry collections from Carcanet have been much acclaimed.
Free, booking recommended