the87press invites you to join us for an in-person poetry reading featuring:

Vahni (Anthony) Ezekiel Capildeo FRSL is Writer in Residence and Professor at the University of York. Their eighth full-length book, Like a Tree, Walking (Carcanet, forthcoming autumn 2021), looks at internalized violence and practices of stillness, while queering 'nature writing'. Their eight published pamphlets include Odyssey Response (Sad Press, 2020). Work in progress includes a ninth pamphlet of elegies.

Andrea Brady is a poet and critic whose most recent books are The Blue Split Compartments (Wesleyan, 2021) and Poetry and Bondage: A History and Theory of Lyric Constraint (forthcoming from Cambridge in November). She teaches at Queen Mary University of London. andreabrady.me

Fran Lock is a some-time itinerant dog whisperer, the author of seven poetry collections and of numerous chapbooks, most recently Contains Mild Peril (Out-Spoken Press, 2019). Fran has recently completed her Ph.D. at Birkbeck College, University of London, titled, "Impossible Telling and the Epistolary Form: Contemporary Poetry, Mourning and Trauma". She is an Associate Editor at Culture Matters and she currently teaches at Poetry School. Fran is currently working on 2 books for the87press, the first of which, entitled 'White Other' is due in Autumn 2022.

A poem from Rishi Dastidar’s debut Ticker-tape was included in The Forward Book of Poetry 2018. A pamphlet, the break of a wave, was published by Offord Road Books in 2019. His second collection, Saffron Jack, is published in the UK by Nine Arches Press. He is also editor of The Craft: A Guide to Making Poetry Happen in the 21st Century (Nine Arches Press), and co-editor of Too Young, Too Loud, Too Different: Poems from Malika’s Poetry Kitchen (Corsair).

Gareth Farmer is an autistic writer and academic based in Shefford, UK. His academic work focuses on poetry, poetics and literary aesthetics and he has published a number of poetry chapbooks, pamphlets and books, most recently, Strategic Forms: or, 74 Questions; 92 Solutions (2021) and Diurnal Sweigh (2018). Gareth's next collection of poetry, entitled 'Kerf' is forthcoming on the87press.

Florence Uniacke is an artist living and working in South London. Her book Suiving is out this spring with Ma Bibliotheque.

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