Come and join the87press at the Roebuck in Borough and hear readings from 6 exciting writers!

Lola Olufemi is a black feminist writer and CREAM/Stuart Hall foundation researcher from London. Her work focuses on the uses of the feminist imagination and its relationship to cultural production, political demands and futurity. She is author of Feminism Interrupted: Disrupting Power (2020), Experiments in Imagining Otherwise, forthcoming from Hajar Press in 2021 and a member of 'bare minimum', an interdisciplinary anti-work arts collective.

Sarah Lasoye is a poet and writer from London. She is an alumna of the Barbican Young Poets and a current member of Octavia – Poetry Collective for Women of Colour. Her debut chapbook, Fovea / Ages Ago, was published by Hajar Press in April 2021.

Robert Kiely is the author of simmering of a declarative void (the87press, 2020) and Incomparable Poetry (punctum, 2020).

Maria Sledmere is editor-in-chief at SPAM Press and a member of A+E Collective. Publications include Chlorophyllia (OrangeApple Press) and neutral milky halo (Guillemot Press). With Rhian Williams, she co-edited the weird folds: everyday poems from the anthropocene (Dostoyevsky Wannabe). Her debut collection, The Luna Erratum, is forthcoming also from Dostoyevsky Wannabe, and this summer she presented an exhibition, The Palace of Humming Trees, at French Street Gallery in collaboration with Jack O’Flynn and Katie O’Grady.

Kyle Lovell is the editor of Fathomsun Press and is based in Birmingham. Their poems have appeared in publications including Blackbox Manifold, Pamenar Press, and woe eroa. Their debut pamphlet, 'Each Sharper Complication', was published by legitimate snack in 2020.

Mau Baiocco is a poet, writer, translator and essayist from Caracas, Venezuela and currently residing in Leeds, West Yorkshire. They are an Assistant Editor and Poetics Specialist at SPAM zine. Recent original and translation work can be found in Ludd Gang, Amberflora, MOTE and SPAM. They host the occasional radio show Selections from the Baroque on No Bounds Radio. A pamphlet is planned for release later this year.