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small white monkeys
18th November, 2017, 2:00pm to 7:00pm
£3.00 – £5.00
A day of talks, readings and performances on shame and self-expression by Nuar Alsadir, Emily Berry, Vahni Capildeo, Wayne Holloway-Smith, Holly Pester and Aniela Piasecka.
small white monkeys, Saturday 18th November, 2pm to 7pm, £5/£3, 18+
The event will mark the publication of small white monkeys, a text written by Sophie Collins during her time at GWL supported by Book Works’ You Must Locate A Fantasy residency scheme.
small white monkeys makes use of materials from GWL’s Archive and Lending Library collections.
Contributors:
Nuar Alsadir is a a poet, writer and psychoanalyst working in private practice in New York. Her second poetry collection is Fourth Person Singular (Pavilion, 2017).
Emily Berry is a poet and editor of The Poetry Review. Her most recent collection is Stranger, Baby (Faber, 2017).
Sophie Collins won an Eric Gregory Award in 2014. Her first collection, Who Is Mary Sue?, will be published by Penguin in March 2018.
Vahni Capildeo’s forthcoming books are Seas and Trees (IPSI, 2017) and Venus as a Bear (Carcanet, 2018). She is a Douglas Caster Cultural Fellow at the University of Leeds.
Wayne Holloway-Smith’s debut collection of poetry was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2017 and shortlisted for The Roehampton Prize. He won the Poetry Society’s Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in the same year.
Holly Pester is a poet working through archives and written histories, with gossip, radical storying and dream logic. She is lecturer in Poetry and Performance at University of Essex.
Aniela Piasecka is a performance artist based in Glasgow. Her work is motivated by a desire to form new associations with people and spaces.
Booking
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