A special headline performance by the legendary poet Malika Booker for our last night at the museum.

Dr Malika Booker (RSFL) a Caribbean British poet, lectures at Manchester Metropolitan University, co-founded Malika’s Poetry Kitchen and is the first woman to win the Forward Prize for Best Single poem twice. Her published work includes 'Pepper Seed' (Peepal Tree, 2007) 'Breadfruit' (flippedeyepublishing, 2007), and the anthology 'Your Family, Your Body: Penguin Modern Poets 3' (Penguin, 2017).

Maggie Harris is a poet, prose writer, and visual artist. She has won The Guyana Prize for Literature and was Caribbean Winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Her most recent collection ‘I Sing To The Greenhearts’ was published by Seren earlier this year.

Jessica Taggart Rose's debut pamphlet, 'The river has no colour', was released in Europe in December 2024 and in the UK in June 2025 with The New Menard Press. Widely published in…