We are delighted to be launching the latest poetry collection by Grace Nichols published by Bloodaxe last year as part of Literary Leicester 2022.

Grace Nichols is a Guyanese poet, novelist and a writer and editor of children’s books based in England. She is the recent recipient of the prestigious Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry 2022. Her first poetry collection, I is a Long-Memoried Woman won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize and was adapted for radio and film. Nichols was one of six leading Black British poets interviewed for the Observer in 2020 and her poems are studied as part of the English GCSE curriculum. She has authored many poetry collections including The Fat Black Woman's Poems, Sunris, Picasso, I Want My Face Back. Event produced by Renaissance One with support by Bloodaxe for Literary Leicester.