Name: Voiced: Polari & Poetry in Manchester
Start: 2026-02-25T18:15:00+00:00
End: 2026-02-25T19:30:00+00:00
Location: Manchester Central Library

Voiced, the UK’s first creative festival for endangered languages, presents an electric and unmissable evening of Queer poetry.
About this Event

Presenting Polari, a hidden language of Queer experience, which will come to life in performance with Jez Dolan. Rosie Garland performs poems from Polari Prize-shortlisted What Girls do in the Dark and her recently published This Is How I Fight, an Observer Poetry Book of the Month. And poet afshan d’souza-lodhi explores Queer language through her mother tongue Konkani, a minority and national language in India.

Join us for this electric evening exploring the intersections of Queer languages, poetry and performance.