First Half We're thrilled to be showing a selection of film poems With films by: Olive Mills Mimi Thompson Katherine Stockton Peter Whittenberger Daisy Thurston-Gent Catching Shadows Emma Gant C. Moss Collective Janet Lees Jo Gifford Second Half Readings by Athambile Masola, and Ma Yongbo and his co-translator, Helen Pletts Athambile Masola Athambile Masola is a poet, teacher and researcher who grew up in East London and currently teaches at the University of Cape Town. A Mandela Rhodes Scholar, she researches the literary careers of historically ignored black women writers and is the founder of Asinakuthula Collective. Her debut collection of poems, Ilifa, was published in isiXhosa by uHlanga in 2021, and subsequently won the HSS Award for Poetry in 2022. Ma Yongbo & Helen Pletts Ma Yongbo has published over eighty original works and translations since 1986 including 9 poetry collections. Ma Yongbo’s complete Chinese translation of Moby Dick has sold over 600,000 copies. The Collected Poems of Ma Yongbo (four volumes, Eastern Publishing Centre, 2024) comprising 1178 poems, celebrate 40 years of writing poetry. He teaches at Nanjing University of Science and Technology. Helen Pletts is the UK collaborative co-translator of Ma Yongbo, her official Chinese translator. She is a committee member of CB1 Poetry, the established monthly poetry reading event in central Cambridge UK, which has organised poetry readings for many years. Besides Chinese, her work has been translated into Bangla, Greek, Vietnamese, Serbian, Korean, Arabic, Italian, Albanian, Romanian and Spanish.