Bridge James is hosting the launch of her collection, Gestating Creatures, online and you’re welcome to attend.
Gestating Creatures is Bridgette James’s debut collection. It is a formally daring, unflinching sequence of poems exploring fertility, pregnancy loss, IVF, the body under medical care, and the weight of cultural expectations on Black British and Sierra Leonean women. It is a rare thing: a collection with the literary ambition to achieve prize-winning status and the emotional directness to attract readers who recognise their own lives on the page.
Bridgette brings exceptional credentials for a debut: a Bridport Prize shortlisting, a Renard Press commendation, the Fiction Factory Poetry Prize, publications across Maudlin House, London Grip, Gutter, Dreich, and La Piccioletta Barca, and an anthology held in the National Poetry Library. She also runs a writing school and competition.
Bridgette will read her own poetry, alongside her guests, Jenny Mitchell, Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto, Anna Zgambo, Foday Mannah and Oumar Farouk.
Launch details as follows:
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