
Four of the UK’s most exciting voices launch new collections in a night of cutting-edge poetry from independent publisher Penned in the Margins.
In Siddhartha Bose’s Digital Monsoon, dreams trigger extraordinary visions of an apocalyptic London populated by the ghosts of a multicultural city. His new collection celebrates the dynamism of urban edgelands in his trademark open field, rhythmical style.
Melissa Lee-Houghton reads from her second book, Beautiful Girls: a raw and powerful account of mental illness that has been awarded a PBS Recommendation. (‘Not a book for the feint-hearted’ – Chris McCabe.)
Hannah Silva, widely acclaimed for her innovative vocal performances, launches her debut collection Forms of Protest – her texts deconstruct the defunct languages of political and literary discourse, claiming a new space, a liminal zone between things as they sound… and things as they are.
And finally Meghan Purvis reads from her vigourousnew translation of Beowulf, published in Summer 2013 and awarded a Recommended Translation by the Poetry Book Society.