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21 Sep 2025

Bards of Bradford Installation (Doodlewall)

Discover the people's poetry of Bradford and add your own Doodles!

Event Details
Date 21 Sep 2025
Times 10am-4pm
Location The Broadway Bradford

As part of our summer Bards of Bradford Project, Travelling Poet Nabeela Ahmed has been gathering poetry from across Laisterdyke, Wyke and Holme Wood and we are delighted to share some of it via our exciting poetry Doodlewall, created by Doodlejam. Come and add your own Doodles!

About the poet

Nabeela Ahmed

Nabeela Ahmed is a writer, multilingual poet and spoken word artist. Her poetry manuscript will be published in 2025 by Yaffle Press. She published her novella, Despite our Differences, in 2018. She delivers readings and creative writing in schools, libraries, museums, for First Story, the National Literacy Trust, online and at various festivals including The Brontes and Jaag. She has compiled two anthologies from these sessions. Her poems have featured in collaboration with artwork and photography atgalleries such as Salts Mills and Trapezium Arts. She hosts Bradford Writes, which platforms local published writers and is responsible for organising the first public Pahari Mushaira in Britain through Intercultured Festival. She has featured on Word of Mouth with Michael Rosen on Radio 4 and her project, The Pahari-Pothwari Literature Project has been selected to deliver new writing for City of Culture Bradford 2025.

Credits
BBC Contains Strong Language is a partnership between the BBC, Word Up North and Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture. It is supported by Arts Council England
A woman wearing a black headscarf smiles at the camera.
Nabeela Ahmed

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Poet Kirsty Taylor wearing a green jacket performs using a microphone. Poet Kirsty Taylor wearing a green jacket performs using a microphone.

Part of BBC Contains Strong Language

The UK’s biggest poetry and performance festival for new writing is coming to Bradford for the first time.

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