This video shows Tishani Doshi performing 'The Fasting Season'.
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About the event

Thursday 8 May, 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 the body, its rhythms, desires, senses and dysfunctions.

Poets

Penelope Shuttle
A much acclaimed poet whose work includes a quasi-scientific study with the late poet Peter Redgrove about menstruation called 'The Wise Wound'.

Tishani Doshi
Winner of the Forward Prize in 2006 for her collection 'Countries of the Body', who writes brilliantly about the body of the senses.

Joanne Limburg
A warm and witty poet who has an MA in Psychoanalytic Studies. She often writes about the body, and the mind's effect on it.