Tahmina Ali is an award-winning Bangladeshi-Geordie spoken word poet and creative practitioner whose work cuts through silence with honesty, tenderness, and political edge. Rooted in lived experience, her poetry explores identity, belonging, motherhood, mental health, and cultural inheritance through a distinctly northern lens.

Using storytelling as both an artistic and social tool, Tahmina creates work that challenges stereotypes, confronts erasure, and centres voices often pushed to the margins. Her practice is grounded in connection, resistance, and the belief that poetry can create meaningful social change.

She is the founder and host of Freespill, a spoken word platform championing underrepresented voices in the North East, and has collaborated with organisations including GemArts Masala Festival. Her work has featured on platforms including the BBC and The Glasshouse, with performances across the UK.

Tahmina is also the author of SPOKEN and co-editor of Thresholds: Poems by South Asian Women in North East England.

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