Join two of the most exciting poets at work today, as Fran Lock and Victoria Adukwei Bulley read a selection of their own poems. Lock’s poetry in no small part orbits the hyena as a symbol: in classical texts, the hyena was a strange figure, capable of transformation, occupying an ungovernable space between categories. Lock’s poetry embodies this figure in all its wild vitality, its strange potentiality. Bulley is a poet, filmmaker and essayist, and her full repertoire of talents and curiosity come to the fore in her spectacular debut Quiet, a meditation on black art, and the space it must make for itself amid the legacies of colonialism, the private world where poetry can happen. Bulley’s light touch and playful acts of resistance and escape make this book one of the finest of the year. Don’t miss this extraordinary reading.

Fran Lock is the author of numerous chapbooks and ten poetry collections. Her most recent chapbook is Forever Alive, and her most recent collections are Hyena! Jackal! Dog!, the long, lyric manifesto White/ Other, and Hyena!Hyena! Victoria Adukwei Bulley is a poet, writer and artist. Her debut poetry collection Quiet, was shortlisted for the T.S. Elliot Prize. She is the winner of a 2018 Eric Gregory Award, and has held residencies in the US, Brazil, and the V&A Museum.