Inspire Poetry Festival 2025 - Romalyn Ante

West Bridgford Library, West Bridgford

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Venue West Bridgford Library

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£8 | Booking advised

For adults (Under 18s to be accompanied by an adult)

AGIMAT book cover

Join Romalyn Ante, nurse and award-winning poet, as she reads from her sparkling new collection AGIMAT.

AGIMAT moves between the Philippines and Wolverhampton, myth and the grind of the present-day NHS. These are poems of strength and solace; they question what it means to fight, and what it takes to heal.   

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About Romalyn Ante 

Romalyn Ante FRSL is an award-winning Filipino-British poet, author, and editor. Romalyn was born and bred in Lipa, Philippines and migrated to the UK when she was sixteen. Her debut collection, Antiemetic for Homesickness (Chatto, 2020), was shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her second collection, AGIMAT (Chatto, 2024), was awarded the Arthur Welton Award, and was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and The Observer Poetry Book of the Month. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2023. The Fellowship is a lifetime honour that includes 'the best writers in or from the UK today'.  She currently sits on the editorial board for Poetry London. 

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