Amina Atiq
ARG Member
Amina is a Yemeni-scouse published poet, award-winning community activist and performance artist. A BBC Words First 2019 Finalist and Young Associate for Curious Minds. Poet in Residence for Queensland Poetry Festival 2020-21 and for Metal Southend.
She is currently working on a solo show, Broken Biscuits, which revisits my grandmother's 1970s Yemeni-British household. In 2020, she produced a short documentary, Unheard Voices, commissioned by DadaFest, which told the stories of Yemeni shopkeepers in Liverpool. Unheard Voices was later broadcasted on Belgees TV and translated in Arabic. She is also working on a new online and print project, Scouse Pilgrimage, commissioned by Unity Theatre.
Publications can be found at Speaking Volumes and Cordite Poetry Review amongst others.
