NANCY GAFFIELD : A.W. KINDNESS : MONTENEGRO FISHER : RICHARD SKINNER
Schedule
Sun, 14 Sep, 2025 at 06:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
JaguarShoes Collective | London, EN
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Join hosts Iris Colomb and Jeff Hilson for the Autumn season of Xing the Line - more words and sounds from the basement at Jaguar Shoes, 32-36Kingsland Rd E2 8DA. Doors 6pm for a 7pm start. £5 waged, £3 unwaged. See you there!Nancy Gaffield is an Emeritus Reader in Creative Writing at the University of Kent. Her first collection of poetry, Tokaido Road (CB editions 2011) was nominated for the Forward Best First Collection Prize and was awarded the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. Her second collection, Owhere (Templar 2012) won a Templar Poetry Pamphlet Award. In 2014, she completed a libretto for the opera, Tokaido Road: A Journey after Hiroshige (Shearsman 2014) for the composer Nicola Lefanu which premiered at the Cheltenham Music Festival before touring nationally. Other publications include Continental Drift (Shearsman 2014), Zyxt (Oystercatcher 2015), Meridian (Longbarrow 2019), and Wealden (Longbarrow 2021), a collaborative work of poems and music performed by The Drift. Her poems have appeared in leading journals and anthologies including The Forward Anthology, the Times Literary Supplement, Tears in the Fence, The Long Poem Magazine, Blackbox Manifold, Golden Handcuffs Review and Angel Exhaust (forthcoming). Her next collection, Destiny Manifest, will be published by Shearsman in 2026.
A.W. Kindness has had poems (and the occasional book review) in a number of periodicals - C.Millennium, And, Angel Exhaust, Fire, Memes, Object Permanence, Ramraid Extraordinaire, Terrible Work. It was round then he helped to run the VI (Vertical images, Vodka Invocations, whatever) series of readings and workshops. More recent online material has appeared in Molly Bloom, Otoliths & Utriculi.
Musical activities (on saxophones and bass clarinet mainly) in bands include Particles, Nuncle, Kindness May Lash, ICE (Improvising clarinet ensemble.) He has performed with a number of musicians including Lol Coxhill, Simon Fell, Hugh Metcalfe, Takehiro Nishide & Eddie Prévost and collaborated musically with a number of poets.
montenegrofisher are Luna Montenegro and Adrian Fisher, poets and artists based in London collaborating in a fluid space of visual, physical and sonic research. Their work investigates ideas of locality and social transformation exploring the human and non-human. They have shown internationally in museums, galleries, poetry and film festivals, residencies, internet and radio. They have been published by Crater Press, Errant Bodies Berlin, diSONARE Mexico, Poem Atlas, Grapheme, Tripwire US, among other poetry and art journals.
www.montenegrofisher.org
Richard Skinner is a writer working across fiction, life writing, essays, non-fiction & poetry. He has published three novels with Faber and eight books of poetry, most recently White Noise Machine (Salt, 2023). He is Director of the Fiction Programme at Faber Academy and runs poetry courses for the Arvon Foundation & Sarum College.
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Where is it happening?
JaguarShoes Collective, 32 Kingsland Road, London, E2 8DA, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
