Sunday 12th February | 6pm | £5 or pay what you can

Paddock calls is a night of poetry, performance and sonic experimentation. Readings from Joseph Persad, Jazmine Linklater, lee rae walsh, Will Harris, Cole Denyer and Kate Frances will be followed by a live set from the Beam-eye Babies (Kat Addis, Verity Spott, Dolly Rae Star, Natasha Allden, James Burton and Joseph Minden) and a live, improvised collaboration between Joseph Minden and the band Sweat. Dan Spicer will be serving up high quality interstitial sounds to keep things greased.

Sweat are here: https://sweatnet.net/ and here: https://www.facebook.com/sweatnet/ 

The Beam-eye Babies are Dolly Rae Star, Verity Spott, Tasha Allden, James Burton, Kat Addis and Joseph Minden. They were born in Woodvale cemetery. Their book, Woodvale, was born there, too, in 2021. 

Joseph Minden is a poet and teacher based in Brighton. His books Poppy and Paddock calls came out in 2022. 

Will Harris is the author of RENDANG (2020) AND Brother Poem (2023). He co-translated Habib Tenor’s Consolatio with Delaina Hallam, co-runs the Southbank New Poets Collective, and works in care homes in Tower Hamlets.

lee rae walsh (they / them) is an american artist and writer living in Brighton, Uk. They received their mfa from Columbia College Chicago & feel at home near water, in Chicago, in New York & in the swampy/sticky south. They have exhibited work & delivered lectures, workshops & performances at venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Hyde Park Arts Center, the Chicago Underground Film Festival, Virginia Commonwealth University & The Luminary. lee writes pedagogy informed by care, attention, devotion & ritual within practice, teaching across disciplines such as photography, writing & design. They run edition-based publishing platform molto molto, hosting experimental exhibitions, events and performances.

Jazmine Linklater is a poet and writer based in Manchester. Her latest pamphlet, Figure a Motion, was published by Guillemot Press in 2020. 

Cole Denyer is coming to get you with two copies of In Boiling England (2021) and one extremely sharp copy of CC DEATH CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF PERSONNEL DEVELOPMENT (2022). He is a KGB bust of Lenin from Baron Heseltine’s Thenford estate.

Joseph Persad lives and works in south London. Hurt Temple was put out by Earthbound Press, World Maps was in Snow Lit Rev 10, parts of Alphabet Containers are online at the Troposphere Editions substack. Love!

Kate Frances is a poet living in Brighton. Her debut collection, Daydream Erratica, came out in 2022 with Broken Sleep Books. She is currently writing her second collection, finishing her degree, and trying to keep her plants alive.