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SUMMARY:Danez Smith: Don’t Call Us Dead                                  
                                       
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DESCRIPTION:Manchester Literature Festival is thrilled to welcome to Manc
 hester acclaimed American poet Danez Smith. A founding member of the Dar
 k Noise Collective\, Danez is an electrifying performer who has twice be
 en a finalist for the Individual World Poetry Slam. Their debut\, (inser
 t) boy\, was widely praised and went on to win both the Lambda Literary 
 Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. \n\nDanez’s new poetry collect
 ion\, Don’t Call Us Dead\, is an incredible and life-affirming collectio
 n of poems that explore race\, gender\, power\, identity\, desire\, the 
 body and mortality in the face of a HIV positive diagnosis. ‘Dear White 
 America’ and ‘It Won’t Be A Bullet’ rage and burn at a country where eve
 ry day is too often a funeral and not enough of a miracle whilst the ast
 onishing opening sequence ‘Summer\, Somewhere’ imagines an afterlife for
  black men shot by police\; a place where suspicion\, violence and grief
  are forgotten and replaced with the safety\, love and longevity they de
 served. \n\nThe New Yorker suggest ‘Danez Smith’s poems are enriched to 
 the point of volatility\, but they pay out\, often\, in sudden joy’\, wh
 ilst Roxane Gay praises Don’t Call Us Dead as ‘Poetry as fierce fire… Ev
 ery poem impressed me\, and the level of craft here is impeccable.’\n\nS
 upporting Danez is poet and performer Hafsah Aneela Bashir. Co-director 
 of the arts collective Outside The Frame Arts\, Hafsah is a member of Ma
 nchester Muslim Writers and recently wrote and performed a monologue as 
 part of the ‘Memories of Partition’ project at the Royal Exchange. She h
 as a keen interest in writing as a form of resistance and liberty\, and 
 her brilliant debut collection will be published by Burning Eye Books in
  autumn 2018. \n\nHosted by poet Andrew McMillan and presented in partne
 rship with Manchester Literature Festival. \n\nDoors open at 6.30pm\, ev
 ent starts at 7pm.\n\nTickets £7 / £5 \n\nTo book tickets visit http://q
 uay.it/fc or call Quaytickets box office on 0843 208 0500.\n
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TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:International Anthony Burgess Foundation\, M1 5BY
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