6.30-9pm
Thurs 29th May
Join us for an evening of poetry with Alex Dimitrov & Ralf Webb.
Over from NYC to mark the publication of his fearless and revelatory new collection, Ecstasy, Alex Dimitrov is one of the most talked-about poets in America. Ecstasy explores sex, drugs, parties, pleasure, and God in the 2020s, and looks back to a coming-of-age in the 1990s that still informs who his generation is and will be. Dimitrov is an iconographer of contemporary life, able to pin profound and timeless meaning to a fleeting encounter in the street. He’s the recipient of the Stanley Kunitz Prize from the American Poetry Review and a Pushcart Prize and is the author of Begging For It (2013), Together And By Yourselves (2017), and Love and Other Poems (2021). His work has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, Poetry, and more.
Ralf Webb is the author of Rotten Days in Late Summer, which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and the nonfiction book Strange Relations: Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Midcentury America. His poems, essays, and fiction have appeared widely, including in the London Review of Books, Fantastic Man, Granta and the Guardian. His second collection, Highway Cottage, will be published by Penguin in 2025.
Books will be available to purchase on the night.