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In Conversation with Roy McFarlane
Black History Month / In Conversation with Roy McFarlane
Join R. M. Francis, Poet and Creative and Professional Writing Lecturer, in conversation with poet Roy McFarlane.
The former Birmingham Poet Laureate is author of Beginning With Your Last Breath and The Healing Next Time (Nine Arches Press) and edited Celebrate Wha? (Smokestack Books) an anthology of Black Poets from the Midlands. He is currently the poet in residence for the Birmingham Midland Institute.
In this event Roy will read from his collections and from new work, which explores and celebrates Black British culture and identity, and talk with Rob Francis about his poetry, poetics and politics.
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