Three of the UK’s most exciting voices read from their new collections in a night of cutting-edge poetry from award-winning independent literary publisher Penned in the Margins.

Blackburn poet Melissa Lee-Houghton celebrates the launch of 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, reads from 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.

Radical, political, courageous
– What’s on Stage

In Siddhartha Bose’s second book 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.

Poems with the sprung dazzle of jazz. Bose makes it new.
– Jeet Thayil