Routes Book Launch - LIVE

Arachne Pressis a micro publisher based in South London, specialising in short story anthologies, but branching out into Young Adult novels and poetry. We love reading our stuff aloud, and decided to help other people do the same, and so we run lots of live events, including The Solstice SHorts Festival, often including music with our stories and poems.

Arachne Press

Join us to celebrate the launch of Routes, the award-winning debut collection by Rhiya Pau

Keats House Library

Introducing Routes: poetry exploring the routes taken by Rhiya Pau’s family and community across three continents to arrive in the UK. At the core of this debut collection is a question – what is worth holding onto?Through poetic experiments that blend the academic and the artistic, Rhiya Pau queries complex characters and tender landscapes. Routes journeys from Ba’s kitchen in Sonia Gardens to Independence hour in Delhi, across the pink shores of Nakuru, to meet a painter on Lee High Road. "Routes …holds up to the light the wisdom of the past, and asks what else is passed down along with it... This is a work of humane intelligence, formal experiment and linguistic verve that promises much." - Sarah Howe, Eric Gregory Award JudgeCelebrating fifty years since her community arrived in the UK, Pau chronicles the migratory histories of her ancestors and simultaneously lays bare the conflicts of identity that arise from being a member of the East African-Indian diaspora. In this multilingual discourse exhibiting vast formal range, Pau wrestles with language, narrative and memory, daring to navigate their collective fallibilities to create her own identity.PLEASE NOTE, ALTHOUGH HOSTED BY KEATS HOUSE, THIS EVENT IS IN THE KEATS HOUSE LIBRARY, NOT IN THE ACTUAL HOUSE - IT'S RIGHT NEXT DOOR.The launch will feature poetry readings and a Q and A with Rhiya Pau.Books will be available to buy and to get signed.Soft drinks and celebratory cake will be served. Tickets are limited so if you would like to come, please book soon!

Rhiya Pau is a British-born poet of Indian heritage from a community that has a rich history of migration. She writes to chronicle the stories of her community and narrate the exploration of her own identity through the lenses of travel, food, ritual and language. Rhiya is the Platinum Poetry winner of the 2021 Creative Future Writers’ Award and holds a BA from the University of Oxford. In 2022, Routes was awarded the Society of Authors Eric Greogory Award.Follow Rhiya on Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/rhi.write/?hl=en" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@rhi.write</a>

Important info:•	This event will be run in line with government guidelines, which means that social distancing will not be in place. You will be seated next to others. •	We will ensure ventilation so you might want to bring a sweater or jacket to keep warm.•	We strongly recommend and ask our audience to wear face masks unless exempt in the library for the safety of our audience, our writers and our staff, some of whom are vulnerable. •	Please arrive in good time to allow us to seat you with the minimum of disruption•	Please use the hand sanitiser on entering the building. •	It would reassure us immeasurably if you could take a lateral flow test within 24 hours before attending, and stay away if the test suggests that’s a good idea.•	Please do not attend the event if you are anyone in your household is unwell or displaying Covid-19 symptoms

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