Ep. 2: Broken Biscuits & Owning Your Truth with Amina Atiq

Salt Water Podcast

Today I sat down with Amina Atiq and we reminisce on her career trajectory over the past almost 10 years! Amina shares about her arrival to poetry from a place of activism, and goes on to explain what sharing her truth and owning her narrative means to her today! This was a lovely nostalgic one for me as I have known Amina ever since we first got started with poetry! To see someone carve out a career for themselves, expand into different art forms and grow as a woman is inspiring!
Amina Atiq is a Yemeni- Scouse poet, performance artist, creative
practitioner & award-winning community activist. BBC Words First Finalist 2019 & Young Associate & Anti-racism group member for Curious Minds. Artist fellow of DadaFest & Weston Jerwood Creative programme.
Currently working in-collaboration with 20 Stories High, a new public arts project coming to Liverpool 8 working closley with Muslim Young people, titled Poets' Gift. New work can be seen at the Imperial War Museum One Story, Many Voices installation, also a selection of poems at the Sutton Manor: Just Beyond Reach. Broken Biscuits & Collection of Works coming to Dada International Festival 2022.
Twitter: @aminaatiqpoetry
Website: aminaatiq.org
Photo credit of Amina: Robin Clewley
Instagram @robinclewleyphotography
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