Radio 3’s arts and ideas programme discusses parenthood and the history of childbirth with Testament, Hannah Silva, Jessica Cox, author of Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain, and by Dr Laura Sellers, curator at the Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds. Hosted by John Gallagher.
Ian McMillan hosts a special performance edition of The Verb recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC’s Contains Strong Language Festival in Leeds. Featuring poetry from Hannah Silva, Khadijah Ibrahiim, Malika Booker, Cecilia Knapp and Testament.
Verve Poetry Festival, Birmingham
GRAVY, Poetry & Other Things, London
FutureBook Conference, London
Experimental Lit Festival, Athens, Greece
All Borders Blur, London
New Intimacies, Edinburgh
Feel the algorithm, London
Gender Equity in AI, the AI Fringe
Queering Parenthood: Kirsty Logan and Hannah Silva In Conversation, London
National Poetry Library at 70 Celebration, London
BBC Contains Strong Language Festival, Leeds
Calling Calling: Maggie Nicols, Hannah Silva, Jo Hellier
Wilderness Festival, Oxfordshire
Primadonna Festival, Suffolk
Adventures in Neurodiverse Writing with Hannah Silva and Debris Stevenson, guest reader Shola von Reinhold