Momtaza Mehri (1995) is een schrijver en onderzoeker werkzaam in de velden van poëzie, kritiek, educatie en radio. Ze was de huisdichter van Homerton College bij de University of Cambridge, zowel als de voorgaande Young People’s Poet Laureaat van London. Haar debuutbundel Bad Diaspora Poems heeft meerdere prijzen gewonnen, waaronder de Forward Prize voor Best First Collection in 2023. Ze heeft haar werk gepresenteerd in New York, Berlijn, Nairobi, Jakarta en Amsterdam, om maar een paar steden te noemen.
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Momtaza Mehri (1995) is a writer and researcher working across poetry, criticism, education, and radio. She was the Poet-in-Residence at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, as well as the former Young People’s Poet Laureate for London. Her debut poetry collection Bad Diaspora Poems won various prizes, including the 2023 Forward Prize for Best First Collection. She has presented her work in New York, Berlin, Nairobi, Jakarta and Amsterdam, to name a few cities.
For once, the moon listens to her side of the story.
She shimmers like a cliché. Light floods the text, the body of words
the body is poured into.
The futile geometries of the heart.
You are not this woman except when you are.” (Via Poetry Magazine, A Victory over the Self Is No Victory at All)
Foto: Daniel Owusu
