AN AWARD-winning performance poet will be the guest speaker at a special event next month.
Jay Hulme is currently Poet-in-Residence at The Poet’s Church – St Giles-in-the-Fields – in Central London.
The transgender wordsmith says he was surprised to come to faith during the covid lockdown.
Alongside his writing and regular performances, he teaches in schools, performs sensitivity reads, and consults and speaks at events and conferences on the importance of diversity in the media, and more specifically transgender inclusion and rights.
He has also written The Backwater Sermons, a queer Christian poetry collection in which Jonah is heckled over etymology, angels appear in tube stations, and Jesus sits atop a multi-storey car park.
He will speak at Zerodegrees in Bridge Street from 7.30pm on Monday, November 7, as part of the University of Reading Chaplaincy’s Café Théologique.
Organisers say it is a space to explore contemporary issues from a theological perspective, and entry is free.
It will also be broadcast live on Zoom.
For more details, search Facebook for Cafe Theologique. https://fb.me/e/2RWVqEdnH
