Poetry at Lala Books: Jake Wild Hall in conversation with Yomi Ṣode

We’re pleased to open our 2026 author events at Lala Books with a poetry night celebrating the launch of Alanis Morissette by Jake Wild Hall, published by Broken Sleep Books.

Jake’s debut collection explores grief, addiction and traversing masculinity as a boy born into a council estate in a soft frame of a body.

Jake will be in conversation with Yomi Ṣode, with guest readings from Kareem Parkins-Brown and Amy Acre.

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 the author of two pamphlets Solomon’s World - which was longlisted for the Saboteur award for best pamphlet - and Blank. Alanis Morissette is his debut collection and published by Broken Sleep Books.

Yomi Ṣode is an award-winning Nigerian British writer and recipient of the 2019 Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship. His debut collection Manorism was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize 2022, the Rathbones Folio Prize 2023 and was adapted for stage at the Southbank Centre.

Kareem Parkins-Brown is a writer and visual artist. A Barbican Young Poet alumnus, he won the Roundhouse Poetry Slam in 2019 and his first pamphlet, Oi You Lot, came out in 2024 was published with Little Betty Press. It was Radio 4’s Poetry Book of the Month.

Amy Acre is a poet and editor, and runs award-winning indie publisher Bad Betty Press. Her debut collection Mothersong was shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, highly commended in the Forward Prizes and named a Book of the Year in The Telegraph, The Financial Times and California Review of Books.

Tickets are £10 and include complimentary drinks.

Jake's collection will be available to purchase at the event.

If you'd like to come but can’t afford a ticket, please select a pay it forward ticket or email [email protected] — we have a limited number of free tickets and books available through our community pay-it-forward scheme.

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