“We’re sorry to announce Danez Smith’s UK events next week are postponed, and we hope to rearrange for later dates this year. This difficult decision comes as a result of the cancellation of some of Danez’s US events due to coronavirus concerns, and the uncertain UK situation.”

We have been assured that, assuming there is a later tour, we will have first refusal.

Danez Smith is a Black, Queer, Poz writer from America. Danez is the author of Don’t Call Us Dead, winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collectionand [insert] boy,  the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry.  Danez’s third collection, Homie, has just been published.

“& colin kaepernick is my president, who kneels on the air bent toward a branch, throwing apples down to the children & vets & rihanna is my president, walking out of global summits with wine glass in hand, our taxes returned in gold to dust our faces into coins & my mama is my president, her grace stuntson amazing, brown hands breaking brown bread overmouths of the hungry until there are none unfed & my grandma is my president & her cabinet is her cabinet cause she knows to trust what the pan knows how the skillet wins the war” -from ‘my president’

Danez Smith is our President. A mighty anthem about the saving grace of friendship, Danez Smith’s highly anticipated collection Homie is rooted in their search for joy and intimacy in a time where both are scarce. In poems of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges that in a country overrun by violence, xenophobia and disparity, and in a body defined by race, queerness, and diagnosis, it can be hard to survive, even harder to remember reasons for living. But then the phone lights up, or a shout comes up to the window, and family – blood and chosen – arrives with just the right food and some redemption. Part friendship diary, part bright elegy, part war cry, Homie is written for friends: for Danez’s friends, for yours.

Admission: £6.00 (£4.00 those without a wage or on low wages). Free to students and staff at Nottingham Trent University.

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