![]() ![]() Amnion is her debut full-length collection, published in November 2021, and is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for 2021.Pester & Rossi are collaborating artists Ruby Pester and Nadia Rossi. Her writing has appeared in FT Weekend, TLS, Economist, Spectator and TANK magazine, and has twice been shortlisted for the FT Bodley Head Essay prize. She studied English at Oxford and currently works as a freelance journalist. Stephanie Sy-Quia was born in 1995 in California and now lives in London. His pamphlets Acting Out and chem & other poems were published by Broken Sleep Books in 2021. He has performed his poems at events alongside Danez Smith and Andrew McMillan, and has read at Fringe!: Queer Film & Arts Festival 2020, Granta's Feminist Erotica readings, Homotopia Festival 2020, and University of Glasgow's Stay at Home Fringe 2020. In 2020, he was shortlisted for the Creative Future Writers' Award, and longlisted for the Desperate Literature Prize, and the University of East Anglia 'Show Me Yours Prize'. In 2021 he was nominated for a Forward Prize and Pushcart Prize. His poems have been published in Penguin's literary magazine Five Dials, Praspar Press's Scintillas: New Maltese Writing, Pilot Press's A Queer Anthology of Healing and A Queer Anthology of Wilderness, Gutter Magazine, Impossible Archetype, Anthropocene, Fruit Journal, The Selkie, and Queerlings, among others. ![]() Peter Scalpello is a queer poet and sexual health therapist from Glasgow. Recent poems and essays can be found in The Contemporary Journal, Spam Zine, and audiograft festival of experimental music and sound art. Her collection States of the Body Produced by Love (2019) is published by Ignota Books. Nisha Ramayya grew up in Glasgow and is currently based in London. Comic Timing, her debut poetry collection published in 2021, is shortlisted for the Forward Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection. She has worked in sound art and performance, with BBC Radio, Women's Art Library and Wellcome Collection. ![]() Her visual work has been exhibited in galleries such as Tate St Ives and Talbot Rice Gallery. Her debut novel, Paul, is published by Granta Books and won a pre-publication Betty Trask Award. Her poetry collection Life Without Air (Granta Books, 2020) was shortlisted for the T. He has published with the Guardian, the London Review of Books, Granta, the Poetry Review, and the White Review, among others.ĭaisy Lafarge was born in Hastings and studied at the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2020 and longlisted for the Rathbones Folio prize and Dylan Thomas Prize. RENDANG – his debut full-length collection – won the Forward Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection, was also shortlisted for the T.S. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Mixed-Race Superman and All This Is Implied, and winner of the LRB Bookshop Poetry Pick for best pamphlet. Will Harris is a poet and critic from London. His forthcoming poetry collection Heritage Aesthetics will be published by Granta in 2022.Īuthor photo © Alessandro Furchino Capria It was also a Telegraph and Guardian poetry book of the year. His second collection After the Formalities published with Penned in the Margins is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the 2019 T.S. His work has also appeared on BBC Newsnight, BBC Radio 4, ITV, Vice UK, Channel 4 and Sky Arts. His poetry has been published in POETRY, the Poetry Review, Poetry London, New Statesman, Granta, and elsewhere. She was recently Anthony Burgess Fellow at the University of Manchester and is the poetry editor for Granta.Īnthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist, publisher and poetry educator. Rachael Allen is the author of Kingdomland (Faber) and co-author of numerous artists' books, including Nights of Poor Sleep (Prototype), Almost One, Say Again! (Slimvolume) and Green at an Angle (Kestle Barton). Your purchase confirmation email will act as your ticket: just bring along the email, your name and/or your booking reference on the day. Sat 16 Oct, 8-9pm, hosted by Rachael Allen. Ticket price includes a drink. With Anthony Anaxagorou, Will Harris, Daisy Lafarge, Holly Pester, Nisha Ramayya (courtesy of Ignota Books), Peter Scalpello (courtesy of Cipher Press) and Stephanie Sy-Quia. Join us for the greatest ever poetry showcase, as hosted by Granta poetry editor Rachael Allen, who'll be introducing an absolute treasure trove of poetic talent – including exclusive previews of forthcoming work – to close BFDay21 on a high note. ![]() TICKETS AVAILABLE ON THE DOOR ST PETER DE BEAUVOIR FROM 10.30 AM SAT 16 OCT ![]()
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