✹Fr⚘gm∞nts⊗ Poetry Reading, Interview & Writing

Invitation: ✹Fr⚘gm∞nts⊗ workshop with Tara Singh

You’re warmly invited to join Shaded Writers x Speak the Word for an online workshop based on Tara Singh’s debut poetry pamphlet ✹Fr⚘gm∞nts⊗ (Five Leaves Publications, 2025).

Wednesday 18 February, 6–8pm (UK time)
Free | Online

The evening will open with Tara reading from their new collection, followed by an in-depth conversation with the brilliant PJ Samuels. Together, we’ll explore themes of race, queerness, gender and trauma through creative prompts inspired by Tara’s poems led by the amazing Maureen P.Medina —everyone is welcome, including allies

About the Book
✹Fr⚘gm∞nts⊗ moves through race, queerness, gender and trauma—tracing loss, memory and self through the fractured lens of complex trauma. Singh’s vivid, sensory poems travel across bodies, borders and time, piecing together what was broken to arrive at a quiet, compassionate reconnection.

Buy the pamphlet:

• Five Leaves Publications (physical copy)
• Etsy (digital copy)

About the Author
Tara Singh (they/them) was born in Nairobi and grew up in Nottingham. They are a queer, neurodivergent poet and occasional facilitator whose work explores the Indian diasporic experience, queerness, gender identity, intergenerational trauma, mental illness, and disability.

(Illustration by The Mollusc Dimension — @squidhorsecomics)