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Wandering between readings of Aimé Cesaire’s Notebook of a Return to My Native Land (1956) and work from Momtaza Mehri’s Bad Diaspora Poems (2023), this session explores how the poets use a blend of surrealism, reportage, humour and stark critique to throw open possibilities of kinship that transcend the legacies of colonialism.
Inspired by these texts, participants will play with voice, sampling and prose poetry to produce writing that both withstands and embodies the contradictions of place and belonging.

Victoria Adukwei Bulley is a poet, writer, and artist whose work has appeared widely in publications including the London Review of Books, LitHub, and The Atlantic. She is the winner of an Eric Gregory Award, and her critically acclaimed debut poetry book, QUIET, won the Folio Prize for Poetry, the John Pollard International Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. QUIET is published by Faber in the UK and in North America by Alfred A. Knopf.