Wed 21 Feb
6:30-9pm
CHEERIO Publishing x Burley Fisher Books present an evening of poetry, with readings from Ali Lewis, Kandace Siobhan Walker and Sarah Fletcher.
Kandace Siobhan Walker is a writer and artist of Canadian, Jamaican, Gullah-Geechee and Welsh heritage. She is an editor at bath magg. In 2021, she was an Eric Gregory Award recipient and the winner of the White Review Poet’s Prize, and a poetry pamphlet, Kaleido, was published by Bad Betty Press in 2022. Cowboy is her first book. She lives in London.
Ali Lewis is a writer and editor. He received an Eric Gregory Award for his pamphlet, Hotel (Verve, 2020), and his poems and short stories have appeared in the London Magazine, the TLS, Poetry Review, and the New Statesman, as well as in Poetry London, where he was Associate Editor.
Sarah Fletcher is an American-British writer currently researching a PhD at Aberystwyth on pain and language. Her poems have appeared in the White Review, Poetry London, Poetry Review and other publications. She has published three pamphlets: Kissing Angles (Dead Ink, 2015), Typhoid August (Poetry Business, 2018) and Caviar (Out-Spoken, 2022). PLUS ULTRA is her first book.