Poetry in Pyjamas: an evening of poems with Laurie Bolger & Jennifer Wong

Get comfy & settle in to a relaxed evening of poetry in association with Rebecca Swift Foundation with from the comfort of your own space via Zoom. Simply kick back with a mug of whatever you're drinking & take in some great words & maybe scribble some of your own whilst you're at it!

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Blankets, nightcaps & PJ's welcome. Yes please!

8.00pm Intro & settle in.

8.10pm Open Mic

8.40pm BREAK

8.50pm Special Guest

9.10pm Q+A

Bed by 9.30pm 🛌 😴

Laurie x

✨About Rebecca Swift Foundation Home of the Women Poets’ Network ✨

The Rebecca Swift Foundation is a registered charity whose aim is to uplift and support UK-based women poets to reach their full potential. We do this through our core programmes:

The Women Poets' Network was set up with support from Arts Council England and currently has over 1,000 members. It is the only directory of its kind with a national reach, and we are proud to have directly supported the professional and holistic development of our community. We advocate for women poets' unique needs and running an evergreen series of events, workshops and in person interventions to help them thrive, and to build lasting relationships with each other and with organisations, producers and commissioners to bring their work into the world.

www.rebeccaswiftfoundation.org

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✨ 📚 Special GUEST this month Jennifer Wong

Born and grew up in Hong Kong, Jennifer Wong (she/her) is a poet, writer and editor. She is the author of 回家 Letters Home (Nine Arches Press), Time Difference (a Verve pamphlet), Diary of a Miu Miu Salesgirl (a Bitter Melon Poetry pamphlet), Goldfish(Chameleon Press) and Summer Cicadas (Chameleon Press). Her next collection, Light Year, is forthcoming from Nine Arches Press in early 2026.

She is the co-editor of two literary anthologies on transnational Chinese and Asian literature, including Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology (Verve Poetry Press, 2023) with Jason EH Lee and Tim Tim Cheng, and State of Play: Poets of East and Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation (Outspoken Press, 2023) with poet and scholar Prof Eddie Tay.

She previously guest edited two special issues of peer-review research journals on Anglophone Chinese literature such as Writing Chinese (The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing) with Prof Frances Weightman and Dr Sarah Dodd.

Wong studied English at Oxford University and earned an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia. She took a fully-funded PhD in creative writing from Oxford Brookes University.

She is the author of Home, Identity and Writing Elsewhere: Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry (Bloomsbury, 2023), which explores home, proximity and distance in the works by contemporary poets from the Anglophone Chinese diaspora.

She also writes prose. Some of her stories have been featured in Sinetheta, HongKongers, QLRS and Under the Radar.

www.jenniferinlondon.wordpress.com

Instagram @jenniferwswong | Twitter @jennywcreative

Laurie Bolger is a London-based writer and founder of The Creative Writing Breakfast Club. Her debut pamphlet Box Rooms (Burning Eye) has featured at Glastonbury, TATE, RA & Sky Arts.

Laurie’s writing has appeared in The Poetry Review, The London Magazine, Magma, Crannog, Stand, and Trinity College Icarus, and her poems and short stories have been shortlisted for The Bridport Prize, Live Canon, Winchester and Sylvia Plath Prizes. In 2023, Laurie’s poem ‘Parkland Walk’ was awarded The Moth Prize, judged by Louise Glück, and Highly Commended in the Forward Prize for Poetry.

Laurie runs Poetry & Nice Things her sustainable creative market stall & this year she has published three pamphlets of poetry ' Box Rooms' with Burning Eye Books, ‘Spin' with Smith|Doorstop & ‘Makeover’ with The Emma Press. Her debut collection Lady is being published this year with Nine Arches Press.

www.lauriebolger.com

Instagram @lauriebolger_ | Twitter @lauriebolger