F*cking up the page with Harry Josephine Giles and Nat Raha

Join two inimitable artists/thinkers for a mix of live performance and conversation about what political poetry does and how it does it!

Working on multiple frontiers at the same time, Harry Josephine Giles and Nat Raha are two of our most exciting poetic voices today. Their poetics create new spaces in the intersection of transfeminism, ecology and sound, unsettling forms and inviting us, as readers and listeners, to step into pages (and out of them) in endless new ways.

This is poetry at its politically most vibrant.

This event will be 30 mins followed by audience questions and signing. Please feel free to attend any or all of these depending on your capacity!

Our speakers:

Harry Josephine Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney, living in Leith. Her latest book is the poetry collection Them! (Picador 2024). Her verse novel Deep Wheel Orcadia (Picador 2021) won the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction book of the year. Her poetry collections The Games (Out-Spoken Press, 2018) and Tonguit (Freight Books 2015) were between them shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Saltire Prize and the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. Her stage show of her poetry sequence Drone toured internationally in 2019, and the performance of Deep Wheel Orcadia will tour in 2025. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Stirling. www.harryjosephine.com

Dr Nat Raha is a poet and activist-scholar, and Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies at the Glasgow School of Art. Her books of poetry includes apparitions (nines) (Nightboat Books, forthcoming 2024), of sirens, body & faultlines (Boiler House Press, 2018), and countersonnets (Contraband Books, 2013). Recent creative and critical writing appears in Queer Print in Europe, Transgender Marxism, Third Text (‘Imagining Queer Europe then and now’) and Wasafiri. With Mijke van der Drift, Nat co-edits Radical Transfeminism zine, and is co-authoring Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds (Pluto Press, forthcoming 2024).