Poetry, Punk and Pop Culture - Samatar Elmi, Kitty Donnelly, Jamie Woods, Jeremy Dixon

Name: Poetry, Punk and Pop Culture - Samatar Elmi, Kitty Donnelly, Jamie Woods, Jeremy Dixon
Start: 2026-04-18T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-04-18T20:00:00+01:00
Location: Friends Meeting House, Cheltenham

Schedule

Sat Apr 18 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Friends Meeting House, Cheltenham | Cheltenham, EN

Four poets who have fused timeless and classic themes with some of the defining symbols, personalities, tastes and tastes of contemporary popular culture read fiercely original poems inspired by myth, legend, rave-culture, movies and even social media!
Samatar Elmi is a British-Somali poet, rapper, neofolk singer-songwriter and author of The Epic of Cader Idris (Bloomsbury, 2024). His previous chapbook, Portrait of Colossus (flipped eye publishing, 2021), won the PBS Pamphlet Choice award. Elmi releases music as Knomad Spock.
Kitty Donnelly has two collections of poetry published by Indigo Dreams: The Impact of Limited Time and In Dangerous Hours. She received a Creative Future Award and won the The Hammond House International Literary Prize in 2022. S
Jamie Woods was selected as 'a poet to watch' by Poetry Wales in 2025. His debut pamphlet Rebel Blood Cells was published by Punk Dust Poetry in June 2023, and was named as one of the best Welsh poetry collections of the year by Wales Arts Review. His new collection Black Skies Die Starless is a stylish coming-of-age tale, set in the 1990s.
Jeremy Dixon’s Bold in the Life (Broken Sleep Books) is an electrifying affirmation of Polari, the coded language once palavered through queer spaces, now reanimated in poetry that is unapologetic, irreverent, and deeply celebratory. Jeremy’s first collection A Voice Coming From Then (Arachne Press, 2021) won 2022.