the87press host Sarona Abuaker, James Goodwin, Caspar Heinemann, Verity Spott, Dom Hale, Kat Addis, Karenjit Sandhu, and Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
This event marks the second iteration of an ongoing collaboration between the87press, The Sonic Agent, poets, DJs, and curators. Uniting the latent spirit of tricontinentalism with contemporary decolonisation and a hope for alter-political utopian futures, this event brings together eight poets and four musicians at the ICA.
Sarona Abuaker is a poet, artist, and educational outreach worker. Her poems have been published in Berfrois, MAP Magazine, and the87press’ Digital Poetics series. Her mixed-media essay 'Suture Fragmentations - A Note on Return' was published in December 2020 with KOHL: A Journal for Body and Gender Research. She is based in London. 'Why so few women on the street at night' is her debut collection (the87press, 2021).
James Goodwin is a poet doing a PhD in English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London with a thesis on the blacksociopoetics of marronage, breath, sacrality and emanation. His pamphlet, aspects caught in the headspace we’re in: composition for friends, was published by Face Press; and his debut book, Fleshed Out For All The Corners Of The Slip, is forthcoming with the87press. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry.
Caspar Heinemann is a poet, artist, and academia-adjacent independent researcher based in London and Berlin. His research interests include critical mysticism, gay biosemiotics, illegitimate communisms, and professional irreverence. He has previously written on a pantheon including John Wieners, Diane di Prima, Paul Thek, and Derek Jarman. He holds a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London. Novelty Theory (the87press) is his first book.
Verity Spott (née Bagshawe; born 28 June 1971) is a British blogger and former Conservative Member of Parliament. After a period working public relations for the music industry in the early 1990s, it became known, as Louise Bagshawe, as a writer of "chick-lit" novels. It was elected Conservative MP for Corby in the 2010 UK general election." Verity's books include Click Away Close Door Say (Contraband Books), We Will Bury You (Veer Books), Trans* Manifestos (Shit Valley Press), The Mutiny Aboard the RV Felicity (Tipped Press), Gideon (Barque Press) and Poems (with Timothy Thornton - Face Press), and Hopelessness (the87press).
Dom Hale co-edits the poetry zines CUMULUS and MOTE. He has published two pamphlets, Solar Panel (glyph press) and Time Zone (SPAM Press), and a book, Scammer (the87press).
Kat Addis is an artist and PhD candidate (at NYU) in renaissance literature, currently writing a dissertation about slavery and race in early modern European epics. Space Parsley (the87press, 2021) is Kat’s first full-length book of poetry. Previous poems have been published in The Chicago Review, ZARF, Tears in the Fence, Stand Magazine, and PELT vol. 4: Feminist Temporalities, a publication by the Organism for Poetic Research. Kat makes experimental costumes and fabric installations which have appeared recently in the Devil’s Dyke Network’s Pleasure Garden Festival, performance art by Sophie Seita, music video by Dominic Sen, and [Space] Gallery in London. Kat also makes poetry/video art, often collaboratively with Joseph Minden, which has been shown by Urban Foxes Collective, London, NYMASA, New York, and Puderraum, Berlin.
Karenjit Sandhu is a poet and artist. Her poems are forthcoming in Women’s Visual Poetry Anthology (Timglaset Editions, 2021), and previously published in the following magazines and anthologies: Magma (2020), Writing Utopia (Hesterglock Press, 2020), Nemeses (HVTN Press, 2019) and Para-text (2019). Her work has been commissioned by the Sir Denis Mahon Foundation, and she has collaborated with the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Flat Time House and Camden People’s Theatre (London), Arnolfini (Bristol) and Galerie Eric Dupont (Paris). Young Girls! is Karen's debut collection (the87press, 2021).
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera is the author of two critically acclaimed books, What If Latin America Ruled the World? (Bloomsbury, 2010) winner of the Frantz Fanon Award, and Story of a Death Foretold (Bloomsbury, 2013) shortlisted for the 2014 Bread & Roses Award. More recently, In Defence of Armed/Art Struggle (Bogota: U Tadeo, 2019), “A Future for the Philosophy of Liberation” in Decolonising Ethics (Pennsylvania University Press, 2020), and the poem Night of the World (The 87 Press, 2020). Professor at the University of London. Fellow of the RSA.