Jake Wild Hall in conversation with Cappo - Nottingham

We are thrilled to be hosting Jake Wild Hall, one of our very own booksellers, in celebration of his new poetry collection Alanis Morrisette. Jake will be in conversation with hip hop lyricist, Cappo.

Alanis Morrisette by Jake Wild Hall is a sprawling, tender, and formally inventive collection that weaves fatherhood, friendship, grief, and masculinity into a shifting, polyphonic tapestry. The poems resist singular narrative arcs, instead offering refrains, fragments, and abrupt tonal pivots that echo the dislocation of memory and the loops of online life. Hall balances absurdism and sincerity with remarkable control, moving between the domestic and the digital, the sacred and the profane. What emerges is a lyric mode that is generous, self-questioning, and defiantly alive to the emotional contradictions of contemporary manhood.

Jake will talk to Cappo about his new collection before an audience Q&A and book signing.

Jake Wild Hall is an award winning poet and one half of Bad Betty Press. He has performed on BBC Radio and at festivals and literary events across the UK. He is a multiple slam champion and his work has been published in magazines, anthologies and online journals. He is the Author of two pamphlets Solomon’s World which was longlisted for the Saboteur award for best pamphlet and Blank.

He has worked with partners including Penguin, Apple’s and Snakes, Writing East Midlands, Derby Poetry Festival and Pearsons. He has also been a guest tutor for Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham University, King’s College London, Lincoln University and others.

His debut collection Alanis Morissette is due out in 2026 with Broken Sleep Books.

Dr Paul Adey is HE lecturer of Music Performance and Music Business at Confetti.

Performing under the artist name of Cappo, Paul has practiced hip hop lyricism for over two decades. During this time, he has had the privilege of appearing at many of Europe’s premier live music venues, performing alongside artists such as Public Enemy, Skepta, and The Sleaford Mods.

Throughout his career, he has released music on various record labels including Tru-Thoughts and Ninja Tune, performed live on BBC Radio One (John Peel) and BBC Radio 1 Xtra, and featured on BBC Radio 6 numerous times.

Paul’s interdisciplinary research focuses on popular culture, and literary devices and musical concepts such as intertextuality and allusion, and the semianalysis of song lyrics. The interdisciplinary nature of Paul’s research links his work to Music, English, Creative Writing, and media studies.

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