(Re)Writing the Archive: An Afternoon of Trans Poetics

(Re)Writing the Archive sees three transgender writers provide unique snapshots into their writing practice and share how their writing intersects with and unpacks their gender identity. The different experiences of being transgender are as numerous as the experiences of being human, and this event will, amongst many other things, demonstrate the threads that run through trans lives are the threads which bind us all.

Featuring:

Remi Graves is a poet and drummer. A former Barbican Young Poet, their work has been commissioned by St Paul's Cathedral, Arthouse Jersey and BBC Radio 4. They have performed at Tate, Cheltenham Literature festival and more. Remi has led courses at The Poetry School and facilitates in schools and community spaces across London and the South East. Remi’s debut pamphlet with your chest (2022) was published by fourteen poems. They have been selected for residencies with Jan Michalski Foundation and La Napoule Foundation/La Maison Baldwin. Remi is the winner of 2024 Prototype Prize (short form category), coal was published by Monitor Books in 2025.

Casey Garfield is a nonbinary poet, occasional publisher, and devoted pal. Their work has been featured in publications including McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and Maudlin House, events such as Wild Paths Festival and Polari Literary Salon, and workshops facilitated for the NHS Wellbeing Service. Their most recent chapbook, ‘stories in which’, is currently available through Salo Press, with their next pamphlet forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books.

Laurie Page is a Plymouth-based poet and writer whose work explores experiences of land, gender, and language in a shifting time. She has a background in music, frequently harnessing the melodic and rhythmical in her writing. She began writing poetry over a decade ago and has since performed at numerous literary events, showcases, and open mics. Her first poetry collection, The Colour of Thunder, was published in 2024 by The Jawbone Collective. She is a second-year English and Creative Writing student at the University of Plymouth. Laurie's short fiction won both the 2025 Charlotte Fox Short Story Prize and the 2025 Appledore Literary Festival Prize. She is the joint organiser of Pyre Events.

This event will feature readings from our three poets, followed by a short audience Q&A.

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