Fatima Al Matar (poet)

Born in Kuwait October 1980, Fatima moved to the UK in pursue of her postgraduate education, she is currently doing her PhD in Law at Warwick University. Fatima lives in Coventry with her four year old daughter Jori. Her poetry has appeared in several Poetry Journals such as Acumen, The Journal, Further Monthly, and Angelic Dynamo, her poem ‘Lessons’ has been shortlisted for the Torbay Poetry Award. Fatima published an anthology entitled ‘The Heart and the Subsidiary’ available for purchase on both Amazon and Google. She is the winner of the Wigan Poetry Slam 2010, and the winner of Poetry Kapow 9 The Slam of Sins 2010. 

Her readings and performances include:
Earlsdon Cottage  (Coventry) July 2009
The Copper Rooms (Warwick University) August 2009
Earlsdon Cottage  (Coventry) October 2009
The Torbay Festival (Torbay) October 2009
CCelebrating Muslim Women (Warwick University) November 2009
Wilde’s Bar (Leamington Spa) November 2009
Catweazle (Oxford) February 2010
The Bard (Milton Keynes) February 2010
WORD! (Leicester) February 2010
Scribal Gatherings (Milton Keynes) March 2010
WORD! (Leicester) February 2010
That Takes Ovaries (The Herbert, Coventry) March 2010
The Punter (Cambridge) March 2010
Spoken Worlds (Burton –Upon-Trent) March 2010
The Garden Kitchen Cafe (Birmingham) April 2010
The Poetry Cafe (London) April 2010
Tudor House (Wigan) April 2010
Poetry Kapow! (Milton Keynes) April 2010

E-mail fatimaalmatar@yahoo.com

MySpace URL: www.myspace.com/fatimapoet