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As summer arrives and the evenings get lighter, we look at three poets exploring ideas of fracturing, mirroring, reflecting and refracting. Zakia Carpenter-Hall, Will Harris and Emma Jeremy will be sharing their work at Bring Down the Haus, our monthly evening of celebrating poetry.
Zakia Carpenter-Hall is an American writer, tutor and critic living in the UK who enjoys working at the intersections of subject matter and artistic mediums. Both her poetry and reviews have been published in each of the following, sometimes in the same issue: Poetry Wales, The Poetry Review, Wild Court and Magma. Her reviews have also appeared in Poetry London and on the Poetry School’s website. Human Ecologies (2021) is her ecopoetry film commissioned by The Scottish Poetry Library in partnership with Africa in Motion (AiM) Film Festival and Obsidian Foundation. She was the editorial intern for Magma 82 Obsidian, a former Poetry London mentee, Jerwood Bursary Recipient and London Library Emerging Writer. In addition to having tutored at the Poetry School, she has also taught courses at Kingston University in London and Royal Holloway University of London.
Will Harris is a London-based writer. His debut poetry book, RENDANG, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. His poems and essays have appeared in the New Republic, Poets & Writers, SPAM, the TLS, and Granta. He co-leads the Southbank Poetry Collective with Vanessa Kisuule, and works in extra care homes in Tower Hamlets as an activity worker. He is a visiting poetry fellow at UEA developing a new community-led archive of four poets’ work.
Emma Jeremy is a British poet, born in Bristol. She is the author of Safety Behaviour (Smith|Doorstop, 2019) and a former winner of the New Poets Prize. Her poems have featured in publications such as Poetry London, Poetry Review and Magma. sad thing angry is her debut collection.
We hope you’ll join us for an evening in celebration of the luminous, the divided, the broken and the bright.
Tickets are £5, including a glass of wine or a soft drink.
