“Nat Raha has written some of the most exciting poetry of the last decade. Transfeminist, communist, revolutionary – with great quickness and nimble intensity, her syllables and survival codes dash through police-lines as high-level transmissions signalling absolute solidarity, insisting that other lives are still possible…These poems do not merely comment on that struggle, but emerge from within it. They are poems that break open a space in which to think through what has happened, who we have been, and what has been done to us. These are fearsome times. Raha writes poetry that acknowledges that fear and refuses to flinch in the face of it, which is in itself an act of the fiercest solidarity.” – Sean Bonney

Nat Raha is a poet and trans / queer activist, living in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her poetry includes three collections of sirens, body & faultlines (Boilerhouse Press, 2018), countersonnets (Contraband Books, 2013) and Octet (Veer Books, 2010); and numerous pamphlets including mute exterior intimate (Oystercatcher Press, 2013). She’s performed and published her work internationally. Nat co-edits the Radical Transfeminism zine, and is recently finished a PhD on queer Marxism and contemporary poetry at the University of Sussex.

Nat participated in Episode 9: Other World’s Already Exist.

Image Description: Nat Raha is stood on a stage talking into a microphone, her eyes and head are slightly tilted downwards as she reads from a red card held in her hands. The background behind Nat is dark expect for a white glowing screen to the left, she is lit with a blue wash.