Tuesday 2nd September
7 to 9pm
Join us for an evening with the multi-award-winning poet Suzannah V. Evans to celebrate the launch of her debut collection, Under the Blue. Suzannah will be joined by the poets Nina Mingya Powles and Isabel Galleymore.
Under the Blue is an arresting, deeply candid exploration of both the shimmering beauty of life and the realities of care. Through a series of glittering fragmental prose poems and evocative postcards, Suzannah V. Evans has produced a kaleidoscopic meditation grounded by profound humanity and empathy – about intimacy and togetherness, sickness and pain, what can be said and what remains unsayable.
Suzannah V. Evans is a poet, researcher, and educator. Her debut poetry collection is Under the Blue (Bloomsbury Poetry, 2025). She is the author of Brightwork and Marine Objects / Some Language, and the editor of All Keyboards are Legitimate: Versions of Jules Laforgue (Guillemot Press). A chapter of her work appears in Carcanet’s anthology New Poetries VIII. Her poetry has been awarded the Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment and a Northern Writers’ Award, performed at international festivals, and broadcast on BBC Radio.
Jennifer Edgecombe’s poems have appeared in Ambit, Magma, New Poetries VIII, PN Review, The Spectator and Wild Court. Her pamphlet, The Grief of the Sea, was published by Broken Sleep Books.
Nina Mingya Powles is a writer and poet from Aotearoa New Zealand, currently based in the UK. She is the author of several books of poetry and creative non-fiction including In the Hollow of the Wave (2025), Magnolia 木蘭 (2020) and Small Bodies of Water (2021). She writes a monthly substack on food and memory titled Crispy Noodles.