Rachel Long

Octavia returns to Southbank Centre for an evening of poetry readings.

Octavia is a rare space for female poets of colour to read, write, share, laugh and grow within a literary environment in which they are the focus.

Since its inception in 2015, Octavia have performed at WOW – Women of the World festival, created a podcast for Arts Emergency, and will feature in the forthcoming issue of hotdog magazine, which marks the first time a multi-authored poem by women of colour has been published in the UK.