Wednesday 17th June 2026.
6.30-9pm (talk starts 7.15)
Join Book Works at Burley Fisher to celebrate the launch of two new titles in our New Writing Series, Robert Frost and Bad Omens.
Robert Frost is a poetic collaboration between poet and novelist Stacy Skolnik and musician Robert Frost. Captivated by the Facebook updates of Robert, an old high school friend, and his increasingly nomadic lifestyle, Skolnik has compiled these updates to create an idiosyncratic and tender portrait of a life lived on the furthermost edges of American society.
Luke Roberts’ new book is a lyrical narrative of art and grief in a time of crisis. Drawn from a decades worth of journals and notebooks, Bad Omens struggles towards a poetics of beauty and debris.
Stacy and Luke will be in conversation with Hannah Regel, editor of the Book Works New Writing Series.
Stacy Skolnik is the author of the novel The Ginny Suite (2024) and the digital poetry collection mrsblueeyes123.com (2019). She is a co-founder and co-director of Montez Press Radio, the Lower East Side- based broadcast and performance platform.
Luke Roberts is a poet. His books include Beginning to End (Nightboat, 2027), Home Radio (the87press, 2021), and Glacial Decoys (Free Poetry, 2021) and, as co-editor, Saborami (Book Works, 2024) and So Much For Life: Selected Poems by Mark Hyatt (Nightboat, 2023). He lives in London.
Hannah Regel is editor at Book Works and the author of The Last Sane Woman (Verso Books, 2024) and the poetry collections When I Was Alive and Oliver Stone, (both Montez Press, 2017 and 2020).