25.2.2026: Voiced: Polari & Poetry in Manchester
Manchester City of Literature
Manchester Central Library
Saint Peter’s Square
Manchester M2 5PD
Wednesday, Feb 25 from 6:15 pm to 7:30 pm
£4 – £8
Voiced, the UK’s first creative festival for endangered languages, presents an electric and unmissable evening of Queer poetry.
Presenting Polari, a hidden language of Queer experience, which will come to life in performance with Jez Dolan. Rosie Garland performs poems from Polari Prize-shortlisted What Girls do in the Dark and her recently published This Is How I Fight, an Observer Poetry Book of the Month. And poet afshan d’souza-lodhi explores Queer language through her mother tongue Konkani, a minority and national language in India.
Join us for this electric evening exploring the intersections of Queer languages, poetry and performance.
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