Special Edition: East of the Sun, West of the Moon — Maggie Harris & Taz Rahman
Poets Maggie Harris and Taz Rahman discuss shared influences and read their work in an intimate evening at the National Poetry Library.
Why we picked this
Two poets whose work spans continents and traditions, reading together in a room that holds more poetry per square foot than anywhere in Britain.
Maggie Harris and Taz Rahman bring their work to the National Poetry Library for an evening that explores the points where their very different literary traditions intersect. Harris, whose writing is rooted in Guyanese and Caribbean experience, and Rahman, whose work draws on Bangladeshi and British identity, find common ground in the displacement and discovery that shape diasporic writing.
The 52-seat venue inside the Royal Festival Hall creates the kind of proximity between poet and audience that transforms a reading into a conversation. Part of the Special Edition 2025-26 monthly series at the National Poetry Library.