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SUMMARY:Thundering In Your Ear
DESCRIPTION:Four poets gather at the Oxford Poetry Library on Friday\, 11 September at 7pm\, to celebrate the launch of Jay Gao’s new collection The Dead One\, The Unconscious One\, Thundering in Your Ear\, Thriving Slumber (Carcanet Press). Join them to hear some of their latest work\, with echoes of the many cities they’ve called home – including Edinburgh\, Hong Kong\, New York\, Singapore\, Oxford and beyond. \nTickets are £5 (£2 concessions\, £10 to pay a little more to support the work we do) – please book tickets in advance here! \nThe building is accessible\, but if you have any specific access needs\, please drop us an email at oxfordpoetrylibrary@gmail.com beforehand. \n  \nMore about the poets –   \nJay Gao is a poet and writer from Edinburgh\, Scotland\, living in New York City. His second poetry collection The Dead One\, The Unconscious One\, Thundering in Your Ear\, Thriving Slumber is forthcoming in Fall 2026 from Nightboat Books and Carcanet Press. His debut collection Imperium (2022) was a winner of the 2023 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize\, an Eric Gregory Award and a Somerset Maugham Award. Currently\, he is a PhD candidate in English at Columbia University. \n  \nNathaniel Chew is a librarian and writer from Singapore\, interluding in Oxford. His collection featherweight (2019) won the Golden Point Award for Poetry in English\, and his writing is published in New Singapore Poetries (Gaudy Boy\, 2022)\, Multiple Exposures (Longbarrow Press\, 2022)\, and online at ArtsEquator\, PR&TA\, and Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. \n  \nMary Jean Chan is the author of Flèche (Faber & Faber\, 2019)\, which won the Costa Book Award for Poetry. Bright Fear (Faber\, 2023)\, their second book\, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the Dylan Thomas Prize. Chan co-edited 100 Queer Poems (Vintage\, 2022) with Andrew McMillan\, and is currently Departmental Lecturer in Poetry on the MSt in Creative Writing and Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College\, Oxford. \n  \nTheophilus Kwek has published five collections of poetry\, most recently Commonwealth (Carcanet Press\, 2025). In 2023\, he was the youngest writer and first Singaporean to be awarded the Cikada Prize by the Swedish Institute\, for poetry that “defends the inviolability of life”. His essays have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement\, Columbia Journal\, Wasafiri and elsewhere. Odeon (Ethos Books\, 2026) is his first book-length work of nonfiction.
URL:https://oxfordpoetrylibrary.com/event/kwek-chan-reading/
LOCATION:The Community Works\, 21 Park End Street\, Oxford\, OX1 1HH\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:OPL Presents: Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana & Catherine Redford
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday 19 September at 7.30pm at The Community Works to hear award winning poets Catherine Redford and Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana read from their new collections. \n\n\n\n\nThese Forward prize nominated\, and award winning writers will read from their new collections. \n\nTickets are £5 (£2 concessions) – please book tickets in advance here! \n\nThe building is accessible\, but if you have any specific access needs\, please drop us an email at oxfordpoetrylibrary@gmail.com beforehand. \n  \n\n\nAbout the poets: \nCatherine Redford’s Forward-nominated debut collection\, The Way the Water Held Me (The Emma Press\, 2026)\, explores the caring\, grief\, loss\, and love experienced by a young widow. A Magma Selected Poet\, Catherine’s work has also been published in Under the Radar\, Propel\, New Welsh Reader\, and Lighthouse. She is an editor at Dust Poetry magazine\, a Nine Arches Press Dynamo Poet\, and a Writing West Midlands Room 204 Writer.‘Catherine Redford is a luminous writer and her poems will touch your heart’ (Liz Berry) \nAlexandra Corrin-Tachibana is a Forward Prize and Pushcart nominated poet and author of Sing me Down From the Dark (Salt\, 2022). Her poems have appeared in P.N. Review\, The North\, Magma\, Pennine Platform\, Poetry Wales and The Pomegranate London. This year she won the February Verve Poem of the Month and came 3rd in the Kent and Sussex competiton\, judged by Mimi Khalvati. She teaches for The Poetry School and The Poetry Business. Of her new collection\, Skinship\, Jennifer Wong wrote: ‘these poems gleam with knowledge and haunt’.
URL:https://oxfordpoetrylibrary.com/event/alexandra-corrin-tachibana-and-catherine-redford-reading/
LOCATION:The Community Works\, 21 Park End Street\, Oxford\, OX1 1HH\, United Kingdom
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