ignitionpress poetry

Chener Books

Join us for readings from Ignition Press poets, Eve Ellis, Eric Yip and Fathima Zahra

Eve Ellis is an American poet and educator based in London. She holds an MA in Creative Writing and Education from Goldsmiths and recently completed the London Library Emerging Writers Programme. Eve won the Winchester Poetry Prize in 2016 and was shortlisted for the Women Poets Prize in 2020.Twice long-listed for the National Poetry Competition, her poems have appeared in Magma, Poetry Wales, Propel, and And Other Poems. Eric Yip is a poet and writer from Hong Kong. He won the 2021 National Poetry Competition and was shortlisted for the 2023 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. His poems have appeared in Best New Poets, The Guardian, Oxford Poetry, and The Poetry Review.Eric has performed his work at readings including in St Paul’s Cathedral as well as on air for BBC Radio 4. He is a former Poetry Society Young Critic for the T. S. Eliot Prize and a co-host of Ying Si Hat Yi, a Cantonese podcast on Anglophone poetry. His debut pamphlet is was published by ignitionpress in 2024. Fathima Zahra is an Indian poet, performer and facilitator based in London. She is an alum of the Roundhouse Poetry Collective, Barbican Young Poets and BBC 1Xtra Words First. Her poems have won the Bridport Prize, Asia House Poetry Slam and Wells Fest Young Poets Prize. Her debut pamphlet ‘sargam / swargam’ (ignitionpress, 2021) was selected as Poetry Book Society’s pamphlet choice. She completed her MA in Creative Writing and Education at Goldsmiths University of London, with distinction.

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