Women Poets Through the Ages with Allie Esiri
Allie Esiri and guest actors will take us on a highly entertaining and powerful journey through women’s poetry. The evening will include poems that mark this year’s centenary of the Representation of the People Act, which first gave some women the right to vote.
The poems will be read by Sheila Atim, Kate Fleetwood, Joanna Lumley and Indira Varma.
Chris Riddell (political cartoonist for The Observer, award-winning author and illustrator, and Waterstones Children’s Laureate 2015-2017) will be live drawing this event.
Allie Esiri is the curator of live poetry events at the National Theatre and at literature festivals including Hay, Bath and Cheltenham, co-creator of the iF Poems and The Love Book poetry apps, and editor of bestselling poetry anthologies A Poem for Every Night of the Year (Independent Bookshop Week Award 2017) and A Poem for Every Day of the Year.
