Push the Boat Out: Double Bill: Yvonne Reddick & Momtaza Mehri

As much meditations on family as burning elegies tackling the big issues of our time, Yvonne Reddick and Momtaza Mehri bring us their new collections in this genre-bending double bill. Reddick’s Burning Season traces a family history of involvement in the extractive fossil fuel industries, set against a love of the natural world. Mehri’s Bad Diaspora Poems, traces movement and displacement from Mogadishu to Damascus to London, and places between, connecting transnational and intergenerational stories; many-tongued poems defined by the aches and joys of our diasporic age.