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About the event

Thursday 13 March, 19.00-20.30

In the Kenyan fairy tale 'The Meat of the Tongue', a healthy diet consists of fairy tales, jokes, songs and poems. The poems paint pictures, tell stories, impart information and engage with our emotions.

Visitors to this event enjoyed live readings of poets' work exploring physical and mental disfigurement.

Poets

Roddy Lumsden
One of the UK's most gifted lyrical poets, whose work often explores the tension between conventional ideas of body and self and their disfiguration. His latest collection is 'Mischief Night: New and selected poems'.

Luke Kennard
A successful younger poet, shortlisted for the Forward Best Poetry Collection Prize in 2007, whose work offers surreal perspectives on the body and on poetry.

Aoife Mannix
A talented poet and performer, whose recent show 'Growing up an Alien' on the South Bank received fantastic reviews, and whose poetry often addresses the body and body perception.