7 - 9 PM
Tristan Hoare and CHEERIO Publishing present an evening of poetry, with readings from Joe Dunthorne, Sarah Fletcher, Ali Lewis, Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Martha Sprackland and Kandace Siobhan Walker.
Joe Dunthorne is a novelist and poet. His debut novel, Submarine (Hamish Hamilton, 2008), was made into a film and his second, Wild Abandon (Penguin, 2012), won the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award. His debut poetry collection, O Positive, was published in 2019 by Faber & Faber. He lives in London.
Sarah Fletcher is an American-British writer currently researching a PhD at Aberystwyth on pain and language. Her poems have appeared in the White Review, Poetry London, Poetry Review and other publications. She has published three pamphlets: Kissing Angles (Dead Ink, 2015), Typhoid August (Poetry Business, 2018) and Caviar (Out-Spoken, 2022). Her debut collection, Plus Ultra, was published by CHEERIO in April 2023.
Ali Lewis is a writer and editor. He received an Eric Gregory Award for his pamphlet, Hotel (Verve, 2020), and his poems and short stories have appeared in the London Magazine, the TLS, Poetry Review, and the New Statesman, as well as in Poetry London, where he was Associate Editor. He frequently collaborates with composers and settings of his work have featured on Radio Three and Radio France Musique. He is a lecturer in creative writing at Exeter University. His first book, Absence was published by CHEERIO in February 2024.
Oluwaseun Olayiwola is a poet, critic, and choreographer living in London. His poems and criticism have been published in the Guardian, The Poetry Review, Oxford Poetry, the Telegraph, the TLS, and elsewhere. Seun was an inaugural member of the Southbank Poetry Collective. His debut collection is forthcoming from Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) and a Soft Skull Press (US). He recently began lecturing in dance in the Kingston School of Art.
Martha Sprackland is an editor, writer and translator. She has taught for Arvon and the Poetry School, and is a mentor for the Women Poets’ Prize as well as a Trustee for the Rebecca Swift Foundation. Her debut collection Citadel (Pavilion Poetry, 2020) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, and the Costa Poetry Award.
Kandace Siobhan Walker is a writer and artist of Canadian, Jamaican, Gullah-Geechee and Welsh heritage. She is an editor at bath magg. In 2021, she was an Eric Gregory Award recipient and the winner of the White Review Poet’s Prize, and a poetry pamphlet, Kaleido, was published by Bad Betty Press in 2022. Her debut collection, Cowboy, was published by CHEERIO in September 2023.
Copies of the poet's books will be available to purchase on the night.