Nascent: An Anthology of Emerging BAME Poets

Nascent is a new poetry anthology from Out-Spoken Press showcasing four young, up and coming BAME poets. The book features poems by Jess Rahman-González, Mukahang Limbu, Tice Cin, and Maria-Sophia Christodoulou. The editors aimed to highlight young poets from underrepresented backgrounds in this anthology. Editor Anthony Anaxagorou says: “The poems in Nascent circumnavigate what it means to be young, to feel at times both present and absent in an ever-changing world. They grapple with issues which have had to be encountered way too early in life, and they do so with courage, sophistication and invention.’ “ Jess Rahman-González is a queer, disabled poet and theatre-maker. They are co-parent of Clumsy Bodies, an LGBTQIA, disabled-led art collective. Jess is currently a member of the Roundhouse Poetry Collective and playwright-in-residence at DYSPLA. Mukahang Limbu is a 17-year-old Nepalese writer based in Oxford. He is a three-time Foyle Young Poet, a SLAMbassador, Oxford Young Writer 2017-18, and has won the First Story National competition. His poems have been published in England: Poems from a School, an anthology written by migrants. He was the recipient of the Out-Spoken Prize for Poetry 2019. Tice Cin is a poet and writer from Tottenham, North London. An alumnus of Barbican Young Poets, her work has been commissioned by venues including St Paul’s Cathedral and Battersea Arts Centre. A Literary Fiction awardee for Spread The Word’s London Writers Awards scheme, she is currently finishing her first novel. Maria-Sophia Christodoulou is a London based poet, completing an MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her family originate from Cyprus where the hybridity of culture and tradition greatly influence her work. She will be pursuing a career in teaching English Literature in schools, where she hopes to make writing and performing poetry a stronger part of the curriculum.