Bringing together two poets whose work moves between the intimate and the historical, this event asks how poetry can become a form of remembrance, a mnemonic device, and how listening can help maintain a connection to languages and places. 

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa’s poetry carries the memories and fragmented histories of Tibetan exile. Mukahang Limbu writes about queer identity, family, labour, and life within the British Nepali diaspora. Dhompa’s work draws on the memories of Tibetan elders and the disruptions of life in exile, while in Mother of Flip-Flops (Out-Spoken Press, 2022), Limbu writes of his mother’s experience as a migrant labourer, alongside poems about family, queerness, and belonging. Through conversation interspersed by readings of their own work, the two writers consider how poetry can sustain the voices and experiences that official histories often disregard.