On Friday 27 June, poet Jennifer Lee Tsai will be reading from her work and sharing a short poetry-film collaboration with Tmesis Theatre ‘Fallen Star’. ‘Fallen Star’ is a tender film about connecting and holding ancestral bodies. Jennifer will also be running a poetry and writing workshop ‘Exploring family history, memory and migration’.
Free and open to all. Refreshments will be served. Click here to book your place.
Jennifer Lee Tsai is an award-winning poet, writer and artist. She was born in Bebington and grew up in Liverpool. She is a fellow of The Complete Works, a Ledbury Poetry Critic and a former Contributing Editor to Ambit magazine. Her poetry and literary criticism are widely featured in publicationsincluding The Guardian, The Poetry Review, Poetry London,The Telegraph, The TLS & The White Review as well as on BBC Radio 4. She is the author of two poetry pamphlets, Kismet (ignitionpress, 2019) and La Mystérique (Guillemot Press, 2022). Jennifer has received a Northern Writers Award for Poetry and is a winner of the Rebecca Swift Foundation’sWomen Poets’ Prize. She has worked as a teacher of English to students in universities and colleges as well as within community settings. She is the recipient of an AHRC doctoral scholarship in Creative Writing at the University of Liverpool and an Artist in Residence at the Bluecoat’s studios through the Wittenham Bursary.