Book launch: '3000 Miles from Home'
Key information
- Date
- Time
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6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
- Venue
- Paul Webley Wing, SOAS University of London
- Room
- Alumni Lecture Theatre, 1st Floor of PWW
- Event type
- Launch
About this event
3000 Miles from Home is a poetry reading and interactive conversation marking the launch of Dee Majek’s debut collection.
Drawing on lived experience, this event will explore migration, memory, and belonging through poetry that traces emotional and cultural distances between Nigeria and Britain. Reflecting on family history, inherited silence, and identity across generations, the work moves between the personal and the collective.
In the context of today’s political climate, Dee will read poems from 3000 Miles from Home alongside selected works from forthcoming collections, creating space for reflection on how questions of movement, nationhood, and belonging are lived and felt in everyday life.
The evening will be interactive, combining readings with conversation and audience participation, and will conclude with a Q&A. The event forms part of World Poetry Week.
About the speaker
Dee Majek
Dee Majek is a Nigerian-British poet and spoken-word artist based in London. His work explores migration, memory, identity, and intergenerational experience within Black British life.
He has been the Streatham Festival poet for the past 3 years and has shared his work in libraries, universities, festivals, and community spaces across the UK, including performances in Birmingham as part of the Empower Festival. Alongside his creative practice, Dee runs the West London Schools and Colleges Poetry Challenge, Student With Voices, working with young people to develop confidence, literacy, and self-expression through poetry. 3000 Miles from Home is his debut poetry collection.
