wednesday 30th july 2025 | 7pm | £4 otd

A night of experimental poetry from some of the most exciting artists on the scene! Featuring Verity Spott, Sabeen Chaudhry, Kat Addis, James Goodwin and Joseph Minden.

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Verity Spott is a Brighton-based poet, performer, care-worker and teacher. 'The North Road Songbook' (Pilot Press, 2024) is her latest publication, and previous works include: 'Songs of the Morning' (Slub Press, 2023), 'Hopelessness' (the87press, 2020), 'Prayers, Manifestos, Bravery' (Pilot Press, 2020) and 'Click Away Close Door Say' (Contraband Books, 2017). Verity also co-runs the poetry and performance event Horseplay (on the last Thursday of every month at The Black Dove) and is the new Series Editor for Veer2 Books.

Sabeen Chaudhry is a writer, producer and theorist based in London. 'Rimming the Event Horizon' is her debut collection of poetry -- a "cyclonic, anti-colonial" resource, which generously "gyrates a mutinous poetics of revenge" for us (the87press, 2023). She has recently completed a PhD at Kingston University and is also co-editor of 'Deleuzine'.

Kat Addis is a poet living in Brighton and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Sussex. Their poetry includes: 'Space Parsley' (the87press, 2021), 'The Hotel' (Earthbound press, 2025), and a forthcoming collection called 'Headgear'. In her academic work, Kat focuses on European renaissance epic poems and the complex interplay of slavery's literary, philosophical and material-historical associations within these. With Verity, she runs Hollingdean Wednesdays, (www.hollingdeanwednesdays.com) a poetry group you'll definitely want to join.

James Goodwin is a poet based in London. His work includes 'Fleshed Out For All The Corners Of The Slip' (the87press, 2021) and 'Faux Ice' (Materials, 2022), inheriting from eskibeat, drill and other sources of experimental Black sociopoetics. He has recently completed a PhD at Birkbeck College, University of London, looking closely at the work of Aimé Césaire and Will Alexander, and is also on the Editorial Advisory Board for the 'Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry'.

Joseph Minden is a poet and teacher living in Brighton. His books 'Poppy' (Carcanet, 2022), 'Paddock Calls: The Nightbook' (Slub Press, 2022) and 'Backlogues' (Broken Sleep Books, 2023), all excitedly await his new collection 'Answerlands' out later this year. His work often explores ideas of heritage, and "how the act of remembering recreates spaces of oppression".

Copies of some of the various works read will be available to buy at the event.

A special shout out to Placeholder, the poetry night you could also be attending if you're not already.

See you on the scree!