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A Poetic Finale: Daljit Nagra and Gita Ralleigh<\/h1>
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A POETIC FINALE to the ARC Book Festival<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How can we have a book festival without celebrating extraordinary local poets? We are delighted to bring you Daljit Nagra in conversation with Gita Ralleigh. Both are accomplished authors and poets. If you are a budding poet, or have poetry to share, this session will include an open mic element! Learn more about our speakers here: DALJIT NAGRA:<\/strong> Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University of London, Vice President of the Royal Society of Literature and Lead Advisor to Poetry By Heart. He also presents the weekly Poetry Extra on Radio 4 Extra. Nagra\u2019s collections have won the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem and Best First Collection, the South Bank Show Decibel Award and the Cholmondeley Award. Daljit Nagra\u2019s new collection – Yiewsley – presents a spirited and stirring return to his boyhood and the town that made him. GITA RALLEIGH: <\/strong>A poet and writer born to Indian immigrant parents in London. During a long career as a medical doctor, she studied for an MA in Creative Writing and won the Wasafiri New Writing Prize for fiction in 2013. Her children\u2019s novels, The Destiny of Minou Moonshine and The Voyage of Sam Singh are published by Bloomsbury UK, and she has written three poetry books for adults: A Terrible Thing (Bad Betty Press) Siren (Broken Sleep Books) and Empirical out now with The Braag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Poetic Finale: Daljit Nagra and Gita Ralleigh<\/h3>\n
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