Poetry Club: Tishani Doshi

About the show

Join us for an illuminating evening of poetry with the acclaimed Welsh-Indian poet, novelist and dancer Tishani Doshi. Doshi will be reading from her powerful new collection Egrets, While War (Bloodaxe Books), a lyric field guide to grief and resilience that finds beauty and resistance in the face of loss and upheaval.

In Egrets, While War, birds become messengers and witnesses, from mythic creatures of ancient epics to the everyday city pigeon, navigating environmental loss, ancestral memory, ageing, and the devastations of war. With lyric precision and emotional breadth, Doshi’s poems turn intimacy into a form of radical presence, offering a meditation on survival, of species, history, and the heart.