Events at Good Press
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From our home at 32 St Andrews Street, we host events like book launches, performances, screenings and reading groups with publishing at their heart. We provide the space for your event or group free of charge, all you need to do is promote it (or not if the occasion needs to be closed to a wider public.) We have lots of stools and a handful of backed chairs, we also have a toilet on site. If you are interested in holding an event here, please get in touch!
Events run from 6:30-8pm (unless otherwise noted)
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Tuesday 27th May
ROSIE STOCKTON, NAT RAHA, MARIA SLEDMERE & BEN REDHEAD
Join us for the Glasgow launch of Fuel, Rosie's latest book, published by Nightboat Books. They'll be joined "on stage" by Nat Raha, Maria Sledmere & Ben Redhead.
The poems in Fuel pick at the weave of oil-soaked world orders to interrogate the ways capitalist death-drive seeps into our unconscious lives.
Traversing multivalent intimacies from the underworld of California’s Central Valley oil fields to the quotidian domestic and love’s painful retraction, Stockton’s poems articulate the blurry modes of extraction, fantasy, loss, gender, and labor as they interact and overlap in the shadow of environmental and personal collapse. Between gas station gifts, Venmo requests, and nocturnal love letters, Fuel unravels the self and violent systems of domination, longing for a togetherness that transcends its own ending.Tuesday 3rd June
ELOISE BIRTWHISTLE, GENTIAN MEIKLEHAM & PATRICK ROMERO MCCAFFERTY
Join us for the launch of Eloise Birtwhistle's poetry pamphlet, 'Splenectomy' (published by Stewed rhubarb Press), with support readings from Gentian Meikleham and Patrick Romero McCafferty.
Eloise Birtwhistle’s debut puts the body and its histories under a scrutinizing lens in a study of our physical and mental agency. Using wonder, precision, and a distinct intimacy, this extended poem weaves ancient with modern; clinical with natural; human with non-human; deep sea with air.
“In Splenectomy, language glides as effortlessly as a body into salt waves. Eloise Birtwhistle crafts scenes that glimmer hypnotically from the depths of the sea to the anaesthetic fuzz of a hospital bed. The poems in this pamphlet are expansive and iridescent, full of bright breath and evocative gestures.” (Alycia Pirmohamed)
“From hospital ward to Sulu Sea; from Hippocrates to Joni Mitchell, Splenectomy is a deep dive into what it is to be cared for as a patient and what is required to care for our planet and its peoples. Eloise Birtwhistle is a young poet of considerable potential and remarkable vision.” (John Glenday)
Eloise Birtwhistle’s poetry has been published in journals including Gutter, SPAM Zine and New Writing Scotland. She won a 2023 New Writers Award and was a Finalist of the 2019 Mslexia and Poetry Book Society Women’s Poetry Prize. A previous recipient of a St Mungo’s Mirrorball Clydebuilt Apprenticeship, she now co-ordinates the Clydebuilt scheme. She has led creative writing workshops for organisations including Glasgow Women’s Library, Lothian Health Services Archive and the Inverclyde Homeless Centre. Eloise loves football and currently works for the LGBTQIA+ charity LEAP Sports Scotland.