Of all the many, many things @full_nommunism and I have done together over the years, since meeting in 2015 as PhD student organisers for the first Race & Poetry & Poetics in the UK conference and poetry reading, followed by countless poetry readings, tea, sleepovers, tandoori paneer, correspondences, and cat time, I have so few photos! We’re doing our latest thing, a poetry reading and discussion at @lccsoundarts , chaired by @the87press , on Thursday April 30th, so I’ve scrounged around hard drives and come up with these. A foundational panel at the first RAPAPUK, an amazing research day at the George Padmore Institute, a sneaky shot of Fred Moten buying both of our books at Arika, sweet hangouts at SoundEye, dream poetry line up, and cat time! Come along - link to book in bio - we’ll share some new work, talk about echo, breath, and loop (and maybe the sonic poetics of purr). 🩷🖤🩷
On 21st April, the Master’s in Creative Writing is hosting a poetry reading and reception at @newnhamcollege .
We’re thrilled to have guest readers Nisha Ramayya @headslice and Jay Bernard @cmmn_stance , this year’s Judith E Wilson Fellow, reading alongside three of our brilliant second-year students: Chandler Crump @chandlerbcrump , Bela Davidson @beladavidson , Helen Jens @helen_jenks . They’ll also be joined by recent alum Stephanie Ritzema @_stephritz and Tutor Joanne Limburg @joanne.limburg !
Doors are at 7.30pm and readings begin at 8.00pm. There will be an interval with free drinks, books for sale, author signings, and a chance to mingle and celebrate our community.
21st April 2026
Doors at 7.30pm at Newnham College, Cambridge
Interval & book signing at 8.45pm
Registration in bio. Learn more about our programme at @cambridge_pace
And thank you so much for @helchar for inviting me to contribute to Counterflows on Paper, a chance to revisit what I’d written/performed for Amina Claudine Myers last year, and to reflect on the conditions of writing from deep within the babyful haze, before and after childcare (sort of - the poems are way more haze than reflection!! 😶🌫️🥰😶🌫️). So much great writing, thinking, and art in here, from all the contributors and thanks to the ongoing collab with Project Ability. Edited by Helen and Joel White, and I think the whole thing will be available on the @counterflowsfest website in a bit.
Another transcendent @counterflowsfest !! From start to finish, full of serene sounds & intervals between sounds; whiplash transitions between completely disparate, completely brilliant artists; time to chat in between all the listening; an unthinkable comeback (me at the Art School after ~15 years??); Annea Lockwood, Annea Lockwood, Annea Lockwood. I adored hearing Bayou-Borne and Becoming Air and the transplanted piano in action (Glasgow style), and was totally moved and thrilled by Los Thuthanaka, Garazi Navas, and local wonders Uzganc Choir and Kings Park Brass. Couldn’t catch everything, but so full up on what I was lucky to hear.
Join us at Newnham College @newnhamcollege to hear from this incredible line-up of poets!
On 21st April, the Master’s in Creative Writing is hosting a poetry reading and reception in Cambridge.
We’re thrilled to have guest readers Nisha Ramayya @headslice and Jay Bernard @cmmn_stance , this year’s Judith E Wilson Fellow, reading alongside three of our brilliant second-year students: Chandler Crump @chandlerbcrump , Bela Davidson @beladavidson , and Helen Jens @helen_jenks . They’ll also be joined by recent alum Stephanie Ritzema @_stephritz and Tutor Joanne Limburg @joanne.limburg .
Registration link in bio.
Doors are at 7.30pm and readings begin at 8.00pm. There will be an interval with free drinks, books for sale, author signings, and a chance to mingle and celebrate our community!
21st April 2026
Doors at 7.30pm at Newnham College, Cambridge
Interval & book signing at 8.45pm
Learn more about our programme at @cambridge_pace
Exciting updates RE Subtexts: Elemental at @whitechapelgallery on Thursday 9th April!
An evening of sound, poetry, and performance that returns to the elemental, to explore what remains after so much has been lost, abandoned, or destroyed.
Bringing together their profound experiments in spoken and drawn poems, radio waves, and noise, four unique performers – Stephen Watts, Mengting Zhuo, Ayesha Hameed and Matt Cargill – will collaborate in a one-off performance in the Assembly Room at Whitechapel Gallery.
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There will be vegetarian food provided by @oitijjo_kitchen , and a selection of wine, beer, and soft drinks. (Free with a ticket.)
Very humbled to perform at the launch of Egg Meat’s new album at Vespers in Peckham this Thursday! These technicians of the most horribly abject, with their sicky mouths and skin crawling beats, are also the loveliest & best pals imaginable. Come and be infested, wretch and be merry! 🖤🖤🖤
Subtexts: Elemental
6-8.30pm, Thursday 9th April, Whitechapel Gallery
An evening of sound, poetry, and performance that returns to the elemental, to explore what remains after so much has been lost, abandoned, or destroyed.
Rather than asking ‘why write’ or ‘why make art’ after catastrophes (historical, ecological, psychic), we admit the inevitability of poetry and art and find out what will be externalised through that impulse or reflex. What may be enabled or summoned or witnessed?
Featuring artists and writers Mengting Zhuo, Stephen Watts, and Ayesha Hameed in collaboration with Matt Cargill. Organised in partnership with the Centre for Contemporary Writing at Queen Mary, University of London and Whitechapel Gallery.
Refreshments will be provided. Link to book in bio. 🌬️
Details of the Inventions programme (2-5pm, Thursday 12 March, BLOC cinema on Mile End Road), part of a series of events responding to Frantz Fanon’s call to introduce ‘invention into existence’ via philosophy, restitution geography, and poetry.
Free and open to all. There will be dinner and drinks after the event. More info on our Eventbrite page!
LARGE THINGS INCOMING
Join us for our album launch at @vespersclub in Peckham on the 26th march!
Yes that’s right we’re ‘launching’ an ‘’’album’’’ - you will hear more about this very soon. Join us for a night of music, dance and poetry!
Extremely honoured to be joined by eggsteemed guests
Danny Hayward
SLUG (@xxs_slug : @ex.sses and @madi.plunkett )
Nisha Ramayya @headslice
Link in bio, egg on face
This was going to be a post about writing post-baby, how writing recedes as creativity, play, and a rush of openness come into the foreground (plonked on the playmat), the little writing games Rob and I set each other over the last while, to try and understand these new integrations of writing and life. But looking at Rob’s portrait of Ticklepenny, and then looking at photos of the year gone by, and thinking about how much the cats have gone through, and how - much more than Worf - Ticklepenny hates change and has been so gracious about the great noisy, grabby, throwy disruption we brought into her life, it’s a post in honour of our fearty muse.
Also, check out the new issue of @tentacularmagazine !! Jonathan has curated a wonderful assortment of incompletions, including ‘Holographics’ by @robert.kiely and me.
