Harbour Doubts: Hands-On! Bebe Ashley & Anthony Sinclair

Join Bebe Ashley for a special preview of her second poetry collection Harbour Doubts. 

Bringing together meditations on language as mediated through sound, sign language, vision and film, this collection cements Bebe's reputation as a fearless experimenter in poetry. 

To encourage audience members to learn British Sign Language for themselves, Deaflympics Gold Medalist Anthony Sinclair will also teach a short introduction to BSL. You’ll even learn some special vocabulary perfect to try out throughout Belfast Book Festival.  

Bebe Ashley lives in Northern Ireland. Her debut collection Gold Light Shining was selected for Read Mór by the Arts Council of Ireland in 2022. In 2023, Bebe received the Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment (Text) and a Creative Practitioner Bursary from Belfast City Council. In 2024, Bebe received the British Council Fellowship for Bundanon, Australia. Bebe’s second collection Harbour Doubts will be published by Banshee Press in July 2025. Click here to discover more about Bebe. 

Anthony Sinclair is profoundly deaf and has been teaching BSL and educating about deaf culture and awareness for over eighteen years. He is the founder of Sign Source and teaches BSL in a range of environments across Belfast including in schools, sports and sign language summer camps, business workshops and tourism conferences. Anthony won a gold medal for tennis in the Deaflympics. Click here for more details about Sign Source.