Friday 1st July, 6.30 pm
International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester. Free. Drinks and Indian nibbles will be served

A cross-continental poetry performance blending languages and movement will be showcased for the first time in the UK. W.N. Herbert and Zoe Skoulding will welcome Bengali poet Sampurna Chattarji, the radical and outspoken Tamil activist-poet Meena Kandasamy, poet and editor Robin Ngangom from the very north east corner of India and Swiss German-language poet and rapper Raphael Urweider. They are also joined by the legendary Kerala poet K. Satchidanandan, one of the stars of Malayalam poetry, who will read in the first part of this double bill.