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Blf 2026 - Thomas Glave
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire200 Jennens Road, Birmingham
Sun 11 Oct · 16:00 · £8
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Birmingham Literature Festival 2026 En Pointe, Off Kilter with Thomas Glave Sunday 11 October, 4pm – 5pm, Eastside Jazz Club £8/£6.40 (concs) In conversation with his two previous collections of lyrical non-fiction, O. Henry and Lambda Literary award-winning writer and academic Thomas Glave scans some of the most defining events of our past and present histories, with twenty-three newly collected essays ranging from British colonialism and the trans-Atlantic slave trade, to the Covid-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter. Offering us a series of quiet and meditative reflections on race and racism, Jamaica and Jamaican queer identity, and the literature of the African diaspora, En Pointe, Off Kilter confirms Glave
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