Wed 20 March
6.30-9.00pm
Please join poet Ezra Miles for the official launch of The Signalman.
The Signalman is Ezra Miles’ debut collection of poems. They coalesce around the poet’s time working in a rural signalbox, the isolation and loneliness falling to an impassioned dialogue with God. At turns both violent and tender, these lyrical poems navigate an ecologically-strained landscape populated by foxes and ghosts. Suffering and beauty sit side by side, as history rotates around personal tragedy, heartbreak and loss. A strange fire burns never far from the surface, its embers blowing across the collection, illuminating the harsh environment and casting long shadows across every face. Who are we, when we’re on our own? And what are we, without each other? The Signalman points us in the right direction.
There will be a Q&A about the book, and readings by MW Bewick and other poets, TBA.
Ezra Miles is a poet born and raised in Hackney, East London. His debut collection of poems is out now with The Black Spring Press. He is the former Poet in Residence at The Wellcome Collection. His work has been published internationally, appearing in Tears in the Fence, Ink Sweat & Tears, The Cardiff Review and Queen Mob’s Tea House, among other publications. When not writing poems, he works as a railway signalman. Follow him on Instagram @ezramilespoet.