The King’s English Department is delighted to announce that poet and essayist Momtaza Mehri will deliver the second annual Sylvia Wynter Lecture.

Momtaza Mehri is a poet and independent researcher. Her work has been widely anthologised and has appeared in Granta, Artforum, The Guardian, BOMB, and Real Life Mag. She is the former Young People’s Laureate for London. Her latest pamphlet, Doing the Most with the Least, was published in 2019 by Goldsmiths Press.

The event will take place at 16.00 on 19 May 2021 and is open to all.

Momtaza’s previous work can be found online: momtazamehri.contently.com