Patchwork Poetry - Hope & Struggle

Join MKIAC for our regular poetry and spoken word open-mic night.  July's event will be hosted by our friends at Lush Cosmetics at Centre:MK.  Come along to hear artists Heena C. Khan, Helen Bowell and Quarina Sultana reading extracts from her new book, Lost Letters & Inked Empires. 

There is an open-mic section - we would love to hear your work if you have something to share that chimes with our theme of Hope & Struggle.  Patchwork Poetry is a safe and supportive space to share your poetry, where communities come together.

Tickets are free but you must book on our Eventbrite page

Heena C Khan is a poet who writes from her heart about being a veiled Muslim woman in the western diaspora.  Heena focusses her writing on identitiy, as well as concentrating on issues in a global, social and political framework.

Helen Bowell is a poet and producer based in London.  Her debut pamphlet The Barman was published by Bad Betty press in 2022.  She is an award winning poet and also a Ledbury Poetry Critic, with reviews in The Poetry Review, Magma and Ink, Sweat & Tears.  Helen has run poetry writing and reviewing workshops for The Poetry Society, The Royal Society of Literature and the Milton Keynes Literary Festival.

Quarina Sultana is a south asian poet, writer and unapologetic overthinker who dwells in the liminal spaces between cultures, languages and thos sleepless, soul-searching hours of the night.  Her words navigate the tangled threads of identity, love and history; tenderly unravelling the quiet contradictions of being both too much and never quite enough.  She writes to make sense of a world that often refuses to fit neatly into any one story.