Launch event for 'Stephen the Phlebotomist' by Nadia Lines - Nine Pens Pres
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Join us on June 12th for the launch of Nadia Lines debut pamphlet 'Stephen the Phlebotomist' with special guests Dana Collins & Em Power
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Join us on June 12th for the launch of Nadia Lines debut pamphlet 'Stephen the Phlebotomist' with special guests Dana Collins & Em Power. The event is online via Zoom and starts at 19:00pm. As with all Nine Pens events, it is free.
Stephen the Phlebotomist is about vampires, Jesus, and a year spent locked indoors. Written with unimaginable tenderness and humour, Lines’ poetry explores the turbulence of student life and the love it facilitates.
In this debut pamphlet, teenage trips to Claire’s Accessories are treated with same unwavering reverence as queer desire and lost crucifixes. Lines offsets the everyday with potently emotional in a meditation on mental illness, blood donation, and love. We sneak inside Lines’ heart and grow to understand her devotion to being devoted.
Nadia Lines is a 20-year-old poet living and studying in Cambridge, UK. She was a Foyle Young Poet of the year in 2019, and has won the Orwell Youth Prize and the Tower Poetry Prize. Her work has been published by The Mays Anthology, Epoque Press, The Keats-Shelley Review, Modern Poetry in Translation and perhappened, and extensively by The Young Poets Network. Nadia’s Foyle prize winning poem also features in Chris Riddell’s anthology ‘Poems to Save the World With’. She loves medieval mystery plays, instant noodles, and her dogs – Freddie and Smudge. Stephen the Phlebotomist is her debut poetry pamphlet.
Dana Collins is the editor of Eponym Magazine. She was a Foyle Young Poet in 2019, and a shortlisted for Wells Festival of Literature Young Poetry Prize in 2020. Recently, she was shortlisted for the 2022 Write Bloody UK Manuscript Contest. You can find her work in the Young Poets Network and Little Stone Journal. Her poetry focuses on trauma and womanhood, and her proudest achievement to date is using the word “vajazzle” in a poem.
Em Power is a 19 year old poet from London. She is a three time Foyle Young Poet of the Year and co-editor of the award winning and world renowned 'Anime Boyz' zine. She is a big fan of the television show Succession.
