Poetry in the Library: LGBT+ History Month

Join us for an evening of poetry readings from Troy Cabida and Sanah Ahsan. This free event and book signing is part of a roving monthly poetry evening consisting of readings and questions from the audience. Poetry books will be available to borrow too. Please register for your free place below. Troy Cabida is the author of Symmetric of Bone (fourteen poems, 2024) and War Dove (Bad Betty Press, 2020). His work appears in Seaford Review, bath magg, 100 Queer Poems, Bi+ Lines, and Tiffany & Co. His debut collection, Neon Manila, is forthcoming with Nine Arches Press in 2025. Sanah Ahsan is a lover of The Divine, a poet, liberation psychologist and educator. Sanah’s work plays in the wild terrain of woundedness, the sacred landscapes of falling apart, centering compassion and embracing each other's madness. Their work draws on therapeutics, embodiment and poetics as life-affirming practices. Some of Sanah’s media work includes writing for The Guardian, delivering a TED talk, and presenting a Channel 4 documentary on the over-medicalisation of people’s distress. Sanah is working on a non-fiction book about the politics of distress, and society’s relationship with unruly emotions. Sanah’s debut poetry collection, I cannot be good until You say it, was published with Bloomsbury March 2024, shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and selected as one of The Guardian’s Best Poetry books.