HOT Summer Dates:
June 27: Ledbury Poetry Festival
Hello, here's a post to let you know about my next events:
It Sounds Like Courage: Music and Solidarity - 26.06.2026, 7.30pm.
Music and spoken word shaped by migration, co-curated by Anoushka Shankar and Counterpoints Arts. Hosted by comedian Nish Kumar, this performance brings together award-winning Palestinian singer, composer, and flautist Nai Barghouti, conducted by Robert Ames with the London Contemporary Orchestra. There are also musical performances from renowned Kora virtuoso Seckou Keita, Afrofusion rapper MoYah, Mercury Prize-nominated songwriter Nadine Shah, and soul singer and songwriter Nectar Woode. Plus, poetry from award-winning poets Inua Ellams, Nikita Gill and Salena Godden. Featuring artists with lived experience of displacement, musicians with migrant heritage and high-profile allies in the fight for justice and equality, It Sounds Like Courage is a night to imagine new possibilities together, with community and solidarity at its centre.
tickets: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk
June 26th: Royal Festival Hall, Southbank
June 27th: Ledbury Poetry Festival
July 19th: Maryville with Joelle Taylor
July 23 - 26: Latitude Festival
August 24th - 29th: Arvon with Nikita Gill
September 9th: Manchester, The Good Immigrant
September 12: Hastings Book Festival
September 13th: London, The Good Immigrant
September 15th: Bristol, The Good Immigrant
September 19: Morecambe Poetry Festival
This September is the 10th anniversary of The Good Immigrant. And we are celebrating its induction into the British Literary Canon. Canongate has selected it for their iconic The Canons series. Very excited about this good news. Beautiful new cover. We are publishing the book in September 2026, ten years to the day after its post-Brexit release in 2016. Ten years have passed, we keep fighting the good fight. Thank you Nikesh Shukla.
Pre-order is available now and to mark the book’s 10th anniversary, editor Nikesh will chairs a series of live panels bringing together original contributors to The Good Immigrant, to reflect on what’s changed in Britain in the decade since publication, what hasn’t. To book your tickets and re-discover the collection that lit a fire and gave voice to a generation, click the links here and visit the Fane website: https://www.fane.co.uk/nikesh-shukla
All you fascists bound to lose.
Sharing art that captures the now, the new Banksy:
the man in his suit, blinded by his flag, marching into the abyss.
See you all this Midsummer's, see you at these beautiful events at the Southbank and at Ledbury and at Latitude. I'm a bit like a hermit crab right now, quietly working on my new books. Trying to make time to stare at big skies, take deep breaths, dream big dreams and patiently birth new worlds. Please take care, eat your greens, drink plenty of water, rest when your body tells you to, and keep fighting the good fight,
With love, grief and fury,
Xxsg
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