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The Royal Festival Hall is closed to the public on Tuesday 16 June. It will reopen for Harry Styles & Jules Buckley Orchestra ticket holders only at 5pm.

Headshot of poet Salma Ali, smiling in a garden. Salma wears a white shirt and bright green hijab.

Salma Ali

Salma Ali is a Sudanese British poet living in County Durham. Her work has appeared in Mizna: The Black SWANA Issue and PANK Magazine’s Azza fi Hawak folio. She was among three winners of the Tate Collective’s Open Call for writing responding to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s The Generosity. 

Ali is currently pursuing a PhD in Genetics at the University of Oxford.