An Evening with Erica Hesketh and Becca Drake

Join poets Becca Drake and Erica Hesketh for an evening of poems that reflect on the place of humans in the more-than-human world, and that look for new ways to speak about our environment and the climate crisis. Becca and Erica will discuss and read from their recent pamphlets, Unstill Landscapes and To an Unknown Receiver: Sonnets & Cascades, both published by Guillemot Press.

Becca Drake is a poet-researcher based in York. Their work focuses on East Coast environmental histories and literature. Becca was poet-in-residence at the Hull Maritime Museum (2021), publishing their chapbook The Maritime Museum & The City in 2023 (Thin Ice Press). Unstill Landscapes was published by Guillemot Press in 2025. Becca is also the founder of Little Hirundine, a small press experimenting in printmaking and material poetics.

Erica Hesketh is a poet and editor, originally from Japan and Denmark and now based in London. Her debut collection In the Lily Room was published by Nine Arches Press in 2025 and explores early motherhood. Her new pamphlet is To an Unknown Receiver: Sonnets & Cascades (Guillemot Press). Erica is also co-author with Laura Sampson of Moon, Snow, Blossom: Wintry Folk Tales from Across Japan (Elliott & Thompson), and artistic director of Winchester Poetry Festival.