What we read now

The YouTube recording of Prof Shirley Lim’s online reading with featured fellow poets L Kiew, Tim Tim Cheng, Jennifer Wong, & special guests Dino Mahoney, Pauline Burton, Jinhao Xie, Maureen Tai, Wendelin Law, is now available!

A poetry reading by Prof Shirley Lim and fellow poets A poetry reading by Shirley Lim and fellow poets to mark Prof Lim's new collection, Dawns TomorrowShirley Lim, L Kiew, Tim Tim Cheng, Jennifer Wong& Pauline ...

Thanks to everyone who came last night to poetry as space summer reading & to co-host Gale! What a wonderful chance to hear from you all and imagine the strange and wild spaces through poetry. Thanks to the fantastic readers Gale Burns Suyin Du Bois JP Seabright Susie Campbell Jason Lee and Jill Abram. have a great weekend!

Looking forward to seeing you on Friday!

Excited to share an in-person summer special on 16 Aug evening at the Devereux in London WC2R 3JJ, exploring poetry as space, with readings from Susie Campbell, Suyin Du Bois, Jill Abram, Gale Burns and JP Seabright. Come and join us!

Excited to share an in-person summer special on 16 Aug evening at the Devereux in London WC2R 3JJ, exploring poetry as space, with readings from Susie Campbell, Suyin Du Bois, Jill Abram, Gale Burns and JP Seabright. Come and join us!

If you have missed the reading featuring the latest works by Denise Saul, Anita Pati, Sarala Estruch and Yogesh Patel on the theme ‘between us’ last time, please don’t forget to catch up on YouTube! Here’s the link to their poignant poems:

What We Read Now - 'Between Us': Denise Saul, Anita Pati, Sarala Estruch, Yogesh Patel An evening of poetry featuring the works by Denise Saul, Anita Pati, Sarala Estruch and Yogesh Patel, on the theme of 'between us'.

So lovely to hear from Denise Saul, Sarala Estruch, Anita Pati and Yogesh Patel tonight, as their poems find languages to capture the spaces and rooms and truths ‘between us’

Coming up on Monday evening! Don’t miss the wonderful chance to listen to and talk to the stellar poets! Rsvp

What we read now: Denise Saul, Anita Pati, Sarala Estruch, Yogesh Patel Come and join us for an evening of brilliant poetry by Denise Saul, Anita Pati, Sarala Estruch and Yogesh Patel.

Don’t miss the chance to hear from four stellar poets on how they explore emotional truth and the intricacy of human relationships on 6 March (Mon) 8pm: Denise Saul, Anita Pati, Sarala Estruch, Yogesh Pati

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What we read now: Denise Saul, Anita Pati, Sarala Estruch, Yogesh Patel Come and join us for an evening of brilliant poetry by Denise Saul, Anita Pati, Sarala Estruch and Yogesh Patel.

We’re very excited about this upcoming reading featuring the stunning poetry by Ramona Herdman, Pey Oh, Andres Ordorica, and Laura Seymour on 7 November, 7.30pm! Please rsvp at https://whatwereadnow_inmylens.eventbrite.co.uk⭐️⭐️⭐️

Very excited about our next online reading, 'in my lens', featuring the works of Ramona Herman, Andres Ordorica, Pey Oh and Laura Seymour! See you on 7 November, 7.30pm! rsvp https://whatwereadnow_inmylens.eventbrite.co.uk

Our next reading will be on 7 November. Watch out for this space :)

What we read now poetry reading: -Julia Webb, Penny Boxall, Jo Morris Dixon, Fawzia Kane https://whatwereadnow_inhabitations.eventbrite.co.uk/Julia Webb lives in Norwich where she teaches and mentors poets, runs online poetry courses and is a poe...

For those who have missed the reading last time featuring the fabulous poems by Penny Boxall, Julia Webb, Jo Morris Dixon and Fawzia Kane on inhabitations, here’s the link on YouTube: https://youtu.be/33k_K5Dg6_M ⭐️⭐️⭐️

What we read now poetry reading: -Julia Webb, Penny Boxall, Jo Morris Dixon, Fawzia Kane https://whatwereadnow_inhabitations.eventbrite.co.uk/Julia Webb lives in Norwich where she teaches and mentors poets, runs online poetry courses and is a poe...

A pop-up international: poetry reading at Peel Street Hong Kong this summer!

Thank you for everyone who came along. So enjoyable to hearing our feature readers Julia Webb Jo March Penny Boxall Fawzia Muradali Kane: such wild and beautiful and moving poems, and your contemplation on forms! Your writing brings us to muse on a king's bed, a house that holds in the rain, a tissue box, a hurricane. We must buy your books.

Happy Thursday! Here's a poem '2004' from Jo Morris Dixon's pamphlet I Told You Everything (Verve):

I hadn’t heard of Section 28 and how it was repealed
in November 2003 in England and Wales but I knew
https://weeklypoems.brookes.ac.uk/2021/11/23/2004/

If you have missed our event last time, here’s a Youtube video link for you to check out the reading by Romalyn Ante Laura Jane Lee Andre Naffis-Sahely, you can’t miss it! Three excellent poetry books to read & keep: https://youtu.be/C3zmbKQhRV4

What we read now reading - family: Andre Naffis-Sahely, Romalyn Ante and Laura Jane Lee About the poetsRomalyn Ante is a Filipino-British, Wolverhampton-based author. She is co-founding editor of harana poetry and founder of Tsaá with Roma, an o...

Absolutely thrilling to hear from Romalyn Ante, Andre Naffis-Sahely and Laura Jane Lee yesterday night, whose works have so much imaginative world-building and poignant family narratives in them. There's so much thought on how to translate lives, open up new directions through rethinking poetic language & voices. Thanks also to Jinhao Xie for the brilliant hosting.

A brilliant, experimental poem exploring borders across time & space by Laura Jane Lee from flinch & air. Can’t wait to hear her read on the 13th!

We are so looking forward to our next event with three super-talented voices: Romalyn Ante, Andre Naffis-Sahely & Laura Jane Lee, on 13 June 7.30pm! rsvp https://whatwereadnow_family.eventbrite.co.uk/

Meanwhile, here's a poem from Andre, whose new collection, High Desert, is coming out with Bloodaxe Books this summer (https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/high-desert-1302 pre-order).

High Desert | Bloodaxe Books High Desert is a psychedelic journal of end-times and an ode to the American Southwest. Exploring such key events as the First Red Scare, the Tulsa Race Massacre and the West Coast’s wildfire epidemic, Naffis-Sahely’s reflections on class, race, and nationalism chart the region’s hidden histor...

Thanks to all of you who came to our last event! Here's a video link to the reading last time for those of you who missed it. Wonderful reading by Liz Berry, Lucy Mercer and Sarala Estruch https://youtu.be/vpGegkQnKkU

What we read now poetry reading - mothers: Liz Berry, Sarala Estruch, Lucy Mercer (13 May 2022) What We Read Now reading 13 May 2022Featured poetsLiz Berry was born in the Black Country and now lives in Birmingham. Her first book of poems, Black Country...

Such a vital reading & discussion with Liz Berry, Sarala Estruch & Lucy Mercer who shed light on reclaiming/reinventing self, transformations, stereotypes, comfort zones, writing as luxury vs need, & conditions we need to make motherhood a generative state!

And don’t forget to bring your questions for the poets! 🙂

https://t.co/vmAhrZKsSd

What we read now reading - mothers Join us for an inspiring evening featuring the works by Liz Berry, Sarala Estruch & Lucy Mercer

What can you rediscover about mothers/motherhood through poetry?

We were all children once, and will we ever know how our mothers feel about us?

Come and enjoy the poetry by Friday evening.

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What we read now reading - mothers Join us for an inspiring evening featuring the works by Liz Berry, Sarala Estruch & Lucy Mercer

Come and join us to immerse in the works of Liz Berry, Lucy Mercer & Sarala Estruch 13 May, 7.30pm. Rsvp https://t.co/LAaGkwqiYT

What we read now reading - mothers Join us for an inspiring evening featuring the works by Liz Berry, Sarala Estruch & Lucy Mercer

Our next event will be on 13 May, 7.30pm: an evening with Liz Berry, Sarala Estruch, Lucy Mercer

Excited that the video link for our reading event is now up on YouTube. https://youtu.be/yOS4ZG7pTwg

No matter where you are, immerse in the worlds of Daniel Sluman, Julie Irigaray, Kathryn Bevis and Claire Collison

Ways of seeing: daniel sluman, claire collison, julie irigaray, kathryn bevis whatwereadnow_seeing.eventbrite.co.ukjoin us for a remarkable evening of poetry with daniel sluman, claire collison, julie irigaray & kathryn bevis.daniel sl...

brilliant evening, brilliant poets, our thanks to the audience too: from body trauma, the French women in Fulham to toxic characters, their poems shock, stir our emotions & knock down walls, taboos, our preconceptions about the world & the stories of others.

posting the event recording very by tomorrow, so watch this space...(sorry to those who got the invalid link)

Hope you are having a lovely Easter Monday!
Just sharing with you our video recording of our reading event last month (with Kate Fox, Joanne Limburg and Vicky Morris presented by Jill Abram) is now up on YouTube. It was such an inspiring reading!

https://youtu.be/fESp55SaDQI

Feel free to share it widely!

What we read now and Jill Abram present: late to the table - Vicky Morris, Joanne Limburg & Kate Fox Jill Abram will introduce Vicky Morris, Joanne Limburg and Kate Fox, three late-diagnosed autistic poets. They will read from their work then discuss the int...

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for our next reading:
26 April 2022, 6.30pm! 😍
Daniel Sluman, Claire Collison, Julie Irigaray & Kathryn Bevis! 🌟🌟🌟