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The Rippling Out Sessions - Theresa Lola, award-winning poet
Sat, 26 Apr
|The Creation Space, Sun Pier House
Join Theresa Lola, to hear her read from her second collection 'Ceremony for the Nameless'.


Time & Location
26 Apr 2025, 15:00 – 17:00
The Creation Space, Sun Pier House, Medway St, Chatham ME4 4HF, UK
About the event
Join poet Theresa Lola as she reads from her second collection, Ceremony for the Nameless.
In Yoruba culture, newborn babies are welcomed into the world, and ushered into the social fabric, through naming ceremonies filled with songs of praise. The names bestowed are communicative both of where the baby has come from – the circumstances of its birth, the atmosphere in the home – and of where its future will take it. Both are forms of destiny.
Far-reaching and musical, Theresa Lola’s second collection explores the act of naming and its role in shaping our identities, our aspirations, what we carry and how we belong.
"There is a bold immediacy and striking grace to Lola’s writing, rendering it accessible and memorable... this book assures her place as a trailblazer for a new wave of poets." Jennifer Lee Tsai, Guardian
"The poems in Ceremony for the Nameless are suffused with a…
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