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'Poemy' poems! Decolonising attraction! Centring Brown voices! Jack Guinness meets poet and performer Gayathiri Kamalakanthan

Gayathiri is a Tamil theatre-maker and poet. Their work explores how language shapes adolescence and how we might use it to queer the future. Gayathiri won the Disabled Poets Prize 2024, the Faber & Andlyn Publisher's Prize 2022 and the Primadonna Fiction Prize 2021.


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