Event 1 East Meets West 18.00-19.15
Pakistani poet Danial Andrew Danish reads from Crimson Pashmina, a bilingual English and Spanish edition of his poems. He has come from Faisalabad to present his poetry, a fusion of the social and the lyrical that reflects the poetic tradition of Punjab. After the reading, there is a talk, open to the public, about his poetry and about Britain as a meeting point between East and West
15 minute break
Event 2. 19.30.21.30. Between the Local and the Global.
Maggie Harris. the Kent-based Guyana-born poet reads poems from her book On Watching a Lemon Sail the Sea and fragments from Kiskadee Girl, a memoir of growing up in Guyana between 1954 and 1971, in which tales of family history are woven together
Bill Lewis, local Medway poet, artist, storyteller, and mythographer, founder-member of The Medway Poets and of the Stuckists art group, reads a selection of poems. Here he tells both of his roots, and - through his poetry and art - his longing to travel to other worlds
Gabriel Moreno, Gibraltarian poet and singer-songwriter, based in London reads poems from his book Heart Mortally Wounded by Six Strings in which he talks about the fusion of his dual Spanish and British identities, and a life growing up, with Africa on his horizon
The readings will be followed by a discussion open to the public about their work as a meeting point between home and away, and the local and the global
