ACE funded project for bi+ poets run by @helen_bowell. BI+ LINES, the world's first bi+ poetry anthology out with LGBTQ+ publisher @fourteenpoems.
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ALT Fee Griffin and BSL interpreter Russell Andrews on stage performing.
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ALT Image showing the Bi+ Lines anthology, with the text: Bi+ Lines: an anthology of Contemporary Bi+ Poets, 7pm Wed 22 May, Social Refuge, Manchester, M4 5AJ. Tickets £5.
ALT Bi+Lines: An Anthology of Contemporary Bi+Poets Join us to celebrate the launch of the first ever anthology of bi+ poets. Hosted by the book's editor and poet Helen Bowell, as well as contributors Fee Griffin, Lenni Sanders and Jake Wild Hall as they explore in-betweenness. 7pm, Weds 22 May, Social Refuge, Manchester, M4 5AJ
ALT Helen Bowell is a poet, producer and editor who runs Bi+ Lines, a project for bi+ poets, and edited the first anthology of bi+ poets with fourteen poems in 2023. Fee Griffin is a writer from the east coast of England and the author of two poetry collections: Really Not Really (2023, Broken Sleep Books) and For Work/ For TV (2020, Versal Editions) which won the Amsterdam Open Book Prize. Lenni Sanders (she/they) is a poet based in Manchester, UK, whose debut pamphlet Poacher was published by The Emma Press in 2019. Jake Wild Hall is one half of Bad Betty Press, the founder of OOIPP fest, one fifth of Boomerang Club and winner of the PBH 2016 Spirit Of The Free Fringe Award. He has performed on BBC Radio and at festivals and literary events across the UK, including touring his debut pamphlet Solomon’s World—longlisted for Best Pamphlet in the 2018 Saboteur Awards. He co-edited anthologies The Dizziness of Freedom and Alter Egos (Bad Betty Press, 2018 and 2019).
ALT Image showing the Bi+ Lines anthology, with the text: Bi+ Lines: an anthology of Contemporary Bi+ Poets, 7pm Wed 22 May, Social Refuge, Manchester, M4 5AJ. Tickets £5.
