Poetry In The Library with Mira Mattar and Amy De'Ath

Join poets Mira Mattar and Amy De'Ath at Forest Hill Library for a relaxed evening of poetry readings and a Q&A. Mira Mattar writes fiction, poetry and essays. Her novella, Yes, I Am A Destroyer, was published in 2020. Her chapbook, Affiliation, and her first collection, The Bow were both published in 2021. A new chapbook, And most of all I would miss the shadows of the tree’s own leaves cast upon its trunk by the orange streetlight in the sweet blue darks of spring, has recently been published by Veer2. Her work has been published in Granta, The Chicago Review, Berfrois, Makhzin and elsewhere. She regularly reads her work in the UK and abroad. Mira lives and works in London. Amy De’Ath teaches contemporary literature, culture, and theory at King’s College London. Her critical book, Behind Our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction, proposes a new way of reading poetry based on Marx’s critique of value. She is the author of several short poetry books, including Lower Parallel (Barque Press, London), and ON MY LOVE FOR gender abolition (Capricious, NY), and with Fred Wah, editor of a poetics anthology, Towards. Some. Air. (Banff Centre Press). Not a Force of Nature is her first full-length collection.