Tayi Tibble (Poūkahangatus), Victoria Adukwei (Quiet), and Bridget Minamore (Titanic, New Daughters of Africa anthology) join bookseller buitumelo for an intimate evening of poetry and feels at Libreria.

Page 65 welcomes poets and speakers with more than a little to say this May! We hope you can join us too – bring your words, your kindness and a heart to listen and share.

More about our guests:

Tayi Tibble (Te Whānau ā ­Apanui / Ngāti Porou) was born in 1995 and lives in Wellington, New Zealand. Her first book, Poūkahangatus, won the Jessie Mackay Best First Book of Poetry Award in 2019.Rangikura, her second, will be published for the first time in the UK and US in spring 2024.

Victoria Adukwei Bulley is a poet, writer and artist. An alumna of the Barbican Young Poets and recipient of an Eric Gregory award, Victoria has held residencies in the US, Brazil and the V&A Museum in London. Her debut pamphlet, Girl B, was published by the African Poetry Book Fund in 2017. She is the recipient of a Techne scholarship for doctoral research at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her debut collection, Quiet, was published by Faber in 2022. It was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and won the Rathbones Folio Prize for Poetry. 

Bridget Minamore is a British-Ghanaian writer from south-east London. Her debut pamphlet of poems on modern love and loss, Titanic, was published in 2016, and she has been published in anthology New Daughters of Africa. Bridget currently works in film and TV production, and is working on a new collection of poems.