Edinburgh, Scotland, 18th August 2019. Edinburgh international Book festival 2019, Scotland. Poets Tania Nwachukwu, Hibaq Osman and Rachel Long, founder of Octavia poetry collective for women of colour, in response to the lack of representation in literature and academia. Since 2015, Octavia have read beyond the canon and written themselves on their own terms, coming together every month at the Southbank Centre.