Poetry Reading at 1b Books: Fatema Abdoolcarim, Kym Deyn, Megan Pattie

Readers:

Fatema Abdoolcarim is an Indian-Pakistani Hong Konger who makes films and writes. Her films have been shown internationally, including at Locarno Film Festival, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and Osaka Asian Film Festival. Tremble is her debut collection of poetry, and was a Poetry Book Society Spring Choice. She lives in the Baltic Sea, on the island of Bornholm.

Kym Deyn is a writer and editor. Their debut collection folkish was published by Nine Arches in 2026 and was made a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Their pamphlets include Dionysia published by Verve Poetry Press, and Unfurl, a collaborative fiction experiment. They have been widely published in anthologies and journals for their poetry and prose, including Oxford Poetry, 14 Poems and Strange Horizons, and are the recipient of a Jerwood Fellowship from New Writing North. They run The Braag CIC, a poetry and speculative fiction press.

Megan Pattie’s writing explores subjects ranging from the Gothic, mythology, and the natural world, to food, mental health, and small moments of wonder. She is a previous Foyle Young Poet, and has been published in a variety of journals, as well as anthologies from Eibonvale Press, The Emma Press, Fragmented Voices, Dreich, and the Black Light Engine Room, who also published her pamphlet, Tracts. Megan's debut collection Bertha Comes Down was published in February 2026 by Broken Sleep Books.