Grateful thanks for full house attendance at my Cardiff book launch for 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon'
Here are some photos from my book launch at g39 in Cardiff, I am incredibly grateful for the full house turnout, my guest reader Abigail Parry and Nasia Sarwar-Skuse, and Jon Gower for a generous introduction, Rhian Edwards and Sarah Johnson from Seren Books for supporting this launch, and to my friend Helen McSherry for playing her beautiful cello:
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Join us at g39 for the launch of Taz Rahman's debut poetry collection East of the Sun, West of the Moon. Reading alongside Taz are T.S. Eliot shortlisted poet Abigail Parry and 2023 Wasafiri Prize-winner Nasia Sarwar-Skuse.
About the poets:
Taz Rahman is a Cardiff based poet, writer and literary content creator. He has been published in Poetry Wales, Bad Lilies, South Bank Poetry, Anthropocene, Honest Ulsterman, Nation Cymru, Culture Matters and various anthologies. He has been selected to be the Chairperson of Poetry Wales Magazine’s Readers’ Committee from September 2022 and is editor of the climate emergency themed literary journal Modron alongside poets Zoë Brigley and Kristian Evans. He was one of the judges for the 2021 Poetry Wales Pamphlet Competition. In 2021 he was awarded a place in the Literature Wales writer development programme Representing Wales, and was mentored by Zoë Brigley. He founded the Youtube poetry channel ‘Just Another Poet’ in 2019, which is presently supported by the Books Council Wales and had previously received literary commissions from Literature Wales.
Abigail Parry is the author of Jinx and I Think We're Alone Now, both published by Bloodaxe. Jinx deals in trickery, gameplay, masks and costume, and has been described as “a party in a bag” (Declan Ryan) and “vaudevillian sleaze” (Stephanie Sy-Quia). I Think We're Alone Now investigates intimacy and failures of intimacy, and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2023.
Nasia Sarwar-Skuse is a solicitor, writer and co-editor of Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature (2024 with 404 Ink). She is an award-winning writer of the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2023. As a recipient of the Swansea University Research Excellence Scholarship Nasia is undertaking a PhD in Creative Writing researching colonialism, partition, migration and its intersections with memory. As the artist in residence at St Fagan’s Museum of History she leads a decolonisation project. Nasia’s writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Poetry Wales, Wasafiri Magazine, Just So You Know: Essays of Experience - Anthology (Parthian books), Lumin Press, In The Kitchen – Anthology (Dahlia Books), Visual Verse, gal-dem