Off The Chest Presents Spaces of Significance: Anthology Launch Sun 15 Sep

Expect readings from some of the poets published within the anthology, as well as a feature set from internationally acclaimed, multi-award-winning poet and best-selling author, Anthony Anaxagorou FRSL,plus BBC and World Poetry Slam Champion, Kat François.

This anthology is published in association with Broken Sleep Books and Bad Betty Press. The poetry in this anthology spans wide and diverse spaces – from the girls’ toilets to the ocean floor.

Edited by acclaimed poets and publishers Aaron Kent of Broken Sleep Books and Jake Wild Hall of Bad Betty Press, the anthology includes poetry from award-winning poets Dean Atta, Laurie Bolger, Molly Naylor, Francis-Xavier Mukiibi, James McDermott, and many more.

There will also be a mini open mic session where you can perform your own work on this theme, plus performances from poets in the anthology. As ever, hosts Iftikhar Latif and Ella Dorman-Gajic will be welcoming you to the space.

After the event, there will be time to socialise, listen to music and buy the anthology. Please come along for this explosive event of poetry, filled with performances from the most cutting-edge new, emerging and established poets the UK has to offer.

Anthony Anaxagorou FRSL is a is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist and publisher. His latest collection was winner of RSL Ondaatje Prize 2023; he has been shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award, T.S. Eliot Prize and Ledbury Munthe Poetry Prize. His second collection, After the Formalities, was Telegraph and Guardian poetry book of the year.

Kat François is a writer, comedian and performer who has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, Saturday Live and Woman’s Hour, as well as BBC TV & Sky, and featured on BBC television’s Paul Whitehouse: Our Troubled Rivers. Kat François has written and performed two solo plays and three solo comedy shows. She recently won a short story competition, and her piece, INDIGO WATERS, is featured in HIDDEN REALMS, SHORT STORIES, published by Flame Tree Publishing. RAISING LAZARUS, her play about Caribbean soldiers in the First World War, has also just been published (TSL Publications.)

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