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Join us for a Botanical Gothic writing workshop with the fabulous Artemis Writers, followed by readings from poets Stav Poleg, Tristram Fane Saunders and Kirsten Irving.
This is a free event, but please book ahead on Eventbrite.
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4.00-6.00pm, LAB 006
Artemis Writers lead a workshop on writing the Botanical Gothic. If you're interested in stories about sentient gardens and mutant moss, don't miss this!
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6.30-8.00pm, COS 117 (cinema room)
Join us in welcoming three very different poets, reading new and old work in the atmospheric cinema room (Coslett 117).
Stav Poleg’s debut poetry collection, The City (Carcanet, 2022) was chosen for the Financial Times’ Best Summer Books 2022, and was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize for First Collection, 2023. Her latest collection is The Banquet (Carcanet, 2025).
Tristram Fane Saunders is a poet, critic, and Senior Commissioning Editor at The Telegraph, as well as current Fellow Commoner in the Creative Arts at Trinity College . He is the author of five pamphlets and one poetry collection, Before We Go Any Further (Carcanet, 2023).
Kirsten Irving is a poet, editor and voice actor. She's the author of Never, Never, Never Come Back (Salt, 2012) and Hot Cockalorum (Guillemot Press, 2022), both of which are also available as digital albums. She co-edits Sidekick Books' Ten Poets series.