Thursday 11th June

Fargo Nissim Tbakhi / Mantra Mukim

Join us for an evening of poetry with Fargo Nissim Tbakhi and Mantra Mukim, who will read from their new collections: TERRORCOUNTER and Glitchwork.

Mantra Mukim is a poet and essayist from Raipur, currently based in Oxford. His work has appeared in Minor Literature, SpamZine, Datableed, 
Poetry Review, Hotel, and Rialto among other places. His Hindi poems have been featured in समावर्तन (Samavartan), and anthologised in युवा द्वादश (Twelve Young Poets). He co-edits Almost Island.

Fargo Nissim Tbakhi is a Palestinian performance artist and writer whose work engages deeply with lived experience, resistance, and form.

Thursday 6th August

Valerie Hsiung / Maria Sledmere / Lady Red Ego / Nat Raha / Nisha Ramayya / Lucille Mona Ling

Please join us for the UK launch of 'The Pedestrian' by Valerie Hsiung, published by Nightboat Books.

Valerie Hsiung is a poet who writes between worlds, where language meets ritual and abolition meets afterlife. Drawing on diasporic, ecological, and metaphysical inquiry, her books dissolve the borders of poetry, prose, performance and philosophy into a single listening body. She is the author of eight full-length books, including The pedestrian (Nightboat Books), The Naif (Ugly Duckling Presse), The only name we can call it now is not its only name (Counterpath), To love an artist (Essay Press), and outside voices, please (CSU). Recipient of the Nightboat Prize, the Essay Book Prize, selected by Renee Gladman, and the CSU Poetry Prize, fellowships and residencies from the Camargo Foundation and Lighthouse Works as well as grants from Foundation for Contemporary Arts and PEN America, she teaches writing at the limits of language at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. Her ceremonial work and pedagogy has been studied by researchers on the subject of emancipatory practices including Sophie Orlando. Born to Chinese-Taiwanese immigrants in Cincinnati, Ohio, she now lives in the foothills of Colorado.

Maria Sledmere is a poet from South Ayrshire. She is senior lecturer in English & Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde and managing editor at SPAM Press. Most recent publications include The Indigo Hours (Broken Sleep, 2025), Languishing, cute - with Ian Macartney (Tapsalteerie, 2025), Midsummer Song (Tenement Press, 2024) and Cinders (Krupskaya, 2024).

Lady Red Ego is a Chinese/Scottish lesbian writer concerned with intimacies. Her first pamphlet, The Red Ego, was published in 2019 with Wild Pressed Books and her second pamphlet, Natural Sugars, was published in 2020 by Broken Sleep Books. In 2023 she released debut collection, Your Turn to Speak!, with Blue Diode Press. Her second collection, My Dearest Friend (我最亲爱的伙伴) was released with VERVE Poetry Press in 2025 and has been longlisted for the Jhalak Prize.

Nat Raha is a poet and activist-scholar. Her books of poetry include apparitions (nines) (Nightboat Books, 2024), of sirens, body & faultlines (Boiler House Press, 2018), and countersonnets (Contraband Books, 2013). With Mijke van der Drift, Nat is co-author of Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds (Pluto Press, 2024, finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards 2025). She teaches in Fine Art Critical Studies at the Glasgow School of Art.

Nisha Ramayya works across poetry, criticism, and collaborative performance, and teaches creative writing. She’s the author of two poetry collections, Fantasia (Granta, 2024) and States of the Body Produced by Love (Ignota 2019; reissued by Spiral House Editions in 2025), as well as the co-authored pamphlets Threads and Siblings, among other publications. Fantasia hazards a listening walk through seashells, telecommunication networks, and cosmic vibrations, to learn something new about how we sound. Alice Coltrane's experiments in jazz and spiritual community guide these poems that hum and glitch, that leap across space-time, landing in and reflecting the discordant music of life on earth.

Lucille Mona Ling is a poet from Berlin, currently based in Glasgow. Her poetry has been published in The Dark Horse, Gutter, Horizon Magazine, and Middleground Magazine. She has been included in the Scottish Poetry Library Anthology of Best Scottish Poems of 2021. Since 2023 she is the founder and poetry editor at Contralytic an interdisciplinary philosophy journal.