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Centre for Poetry and Poetics, Sheffield, Presents:SASCHA AKHTAR & KIMBERLY CAMPANELLO
7th of May 2025
6.15pm
The Diamond, LT2
University of Sheffield
Sascha A. Akhtar is the author of 7 books of poetry, one of fiction. She is also a translator and Creative Writing lecturer at the University of Greenwich. Akhtar has been performing her work for 20 years, highlights include the Poetry Wales Festival, Emirates Festival of Literature and Rotterdam Poetry Festival. Latest writings appear in Fugitives & Futurists, Shuddasar, Deleuzine, Rivista international, Prototype Annual 4, Cut-Purse (Tangerine Press), Of Myths and Mothers anthology and on Lucy Writers Platform. Her debut book of translations from Urdu Belles-Lettres; The Writings of Hijab Imtiaz with Oxford University Press received an Honorable Mention for the 2024 A.K. Ramanujan Prize for book translations from South Asian languages into English. Akhtar's latest social theory in the form of radical visual forms was launched October 2023 at the Small Publisher's Fair. The Ms is out with Intergraphia Press. The Grimoire of Grimalkin was published in a second edition by Prototype Publishers in October 2024.
Kimberly Campanello is the author of the poetry-object and durational performance MOTHERBABYHOME (zimZalla, 2019). She is an inaugural Markievicz Award winner from Ireland's Arts Council and the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for (S)worn State(s) (The Salvage Press, 2024) with Dimitra Xidous and Annemarie Ní Churreáin and an Arts Council Ireland Literature Project Award for sorry that you were not moved (2022), an interactive digital poetry publication in conversation with Calvino’s Invisible Cities created in collaboration with Christodoulos Makris and Fallow Media. Her next poetry collection An Interesting Detail joins Bloomsbury Poetry's list edited by Kayo Chingonyi in April 2025. Her debut novel Use the Words You Have launches in June 2025 as the inaugural title from Somesuch Editions, the imprint of BAFTA and Oscar-winning production company Somesuch. She is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds.
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The Diamond, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
