Poetry in the Library

Join us for a friendly poetry reading and Q&A with Rachael Allen and Nisha Ramayya. This event is free and open to all, and there's no need to book a space. Books will be available to buy and borrow on the night and refreshments will be provided. Rachael Allen is the author of Kingdomland and God Complex, both published by Faber. She is the recipient of the Poetry Book Society Choice, the Northern Writers' Award and an Eric Gregory Award. She works as an editor and lecturer in London. Nisha Ramayya works across poetry, criticism, and collaborative performance, and teaches creative writing. She’s the author of States of the Body Produced by Love (Ignota, 2019) and a new poetry collection Fantasia, which is coming out with Granta in August 2024. Fantasia hazards a listening walk through seashells, telecommunication networks, and cosmic vibrations, to learn something new about how we sound. Alice Coltrane's experiments in jazz and spiritual community guide these poems that hum and glitch, that leap across space-time, landing in and reflecting the discordant music of life on earth.