Join Suzannah Evans, Tom Sastry and Julia Webb for a probing discussion about their new books: Space Baby, You have no normal country to return to and The Telling. The poets will put questions to one another, as they uncover overlapping themes, share their influences and motivations, and of course some poems too.

A spotlight on our first three titles of 2022, hosted on the publication day of Space Baby.

on Thursday 9th June, 7.30pm (BST)

This event will be streamed live through the Nine Arches Press YouTube channel and live captioned. Those who register to 'attend' will receive an event link by email on the day of the event.

Space Baby, the second collection by Suzannah Evans, asks difficult questions about the Earth, its beings, and what lies ahead for them; how do we look to the future on a planet that’s burning? If the human race destroys what we have, where will we go? In this dystopian, searching book, we discover a mix of absurdity and wit with speculative and serious themes. These are vivid, prescient poems of existence, and survival, which ask how we can still find joy on a ruined planet. Space Baby follows Near Future (2018).

In You have no normal country to return to, Tom Sastry explores questions of national identity and ‘the end of history'. A blistering, bleakly funny and timely collection, following his Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize shortlisted A Man's House Catches Fire. By turns crisply satirical and questioning, You have no normal country to return to ranges across the legacies of Empire, postwar migration and the current crisis in English identity. It is a book about illusion, and discovering, again and again, that what was once taken for granted was never really there; a guidebook for an age of “enchantments collapsing on themselves”.

The Telling by Julia Webb is a distinctive and acutely-observed collection of poems that unravel the intricacies at the heart of human relationships. Moving and dark, we uncover the things that go unspoken between people despite their closeness. The Telling follows Bird Sisters (2016) and Threat (2019). In turning her forensic focus on what makes us human, and in particular what it is that glues us together or causes us to come apart, Julia Webb’s poetry examines the wreckage of complex lives to understand where the fault lines and fractures lie. What are the stories that construct our families and relationships, and who gets to tell them?

Click in to these titles to find out more and purchase a copy:

Space Baby

You have no normal country to return to

The Telling

Or purchase this trio together as a limited edition Book Bundle here