Sometimes you wanted to be caught and sometimes you wanted to be held. With all that you’ve endured, you are nothing less than miraculous.”

From choirboy to drag act, grandson to mentor, poet to lover, Dean Atta has played many roles in his life. In this formally inventive, candid and courageous book, he explores what he has carried in his body: wins and losses, shame and pride, pain and joy. Dean also investigates how radical self-acceptance and a willingness to abide with discomfort open up the possibility of a life lived beyond definition: a person unlimited.

Dean will be in conversation with poet and publisher Amy Acre, discussing his new memoir and how it felt to explore his identity in multiple forms; including his Blackness and queerness , and also his relationship to his Cypriot and Jamaican heritage.

Dean Atta was a familiar face in Nottingham during his time as associate artist of the much-missed Mouthy Poets.