Join award-winning author, columnist and poet Shreya Sen-Handley for her second Nottstopping gig, in which she takes us to the Delhi of 25 years ago, to its seamier side from a chapter in her book ‘Memoirs of My Body’, and then further back to the London of 1968 of her Welsh National Opera libretto in ‘Migrations’ where “foreign” doctors invited to join the NHS arrive to find they are not so welcome after all…
“The Thames will foam
With blood like the Tiber
Let’s fight this migrant flood
Let me recover our once golden land
Put your fate in my hands.”
The opera goes on tour in the UK in 2021, and Shreya is sharing snippets from it for the first time. A Nottstopping exclusive.
Join award-winning author, columnist and poet Shreya Sen-Handley for the first of two Nottstopping gigs in which she takes you, first to Corfu, to face the unexpected, with a reading from her recent HarperCollins short story collection, ‘Strange’ – then back to Nottingham and community with her national anti-hate crimes campaign poem ‘No Man is a Sneinton Island’, finishing with a spot of natter.
“I am involved in mankind”
Flowing with mankind.
Down Forest Fields.
To the tram stop.
This time
When it happens
My wits are about me. ..”
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