love & other cancers: Poetry Launch with Olivia Thomakos
Featured Speakers
Olivia Thomakos & Charlie Hilton
Thrilled to be teaming up with the wonders at Stewed Rhubarb for another poetry delight - this time The Launch of Olivia Thomakos tremendous love & other cancers!
The poems in Love & Other Cancers are deeply personal yet universally resonant, deftly exploring the struggles of our life journeys as we discover ourselves and navigate familial, friendly, and romantic relationships through seasons of illness, loss, and change.
A tender, healing work, Thomakos takes us inside womanhood, family, diagnoses and treatments with detail and precision, and she makes us feel every word. – Jane McKie
The Poet:
Olivia Thomakos is an Ohio-born writer, teacher, and editor. Her poem ‘What You Wish For’ won the 2022 Grierson Verse Prize. She is Poetry Editor of Origin Stories: An Anthology of Beginnings and Managing Editor of Tiny Flames: Voices from Ukraine, both with Forest Publishing. Her poetry can be found in Gutter, Berfrois, Dreich Magazine and elsewhere. www.oliviathomakos.com
Love & Other Cancers offers musicality and excitement throughout ... Thomakos’ writing feels conversational and confessional but also controlled and measured. There is a lightness to it and yet nothing feels written simply for the sake of it. An assured debut. – Sean Wai Keung
The talented support act:
Charlie Hilton is an Edinburgh-based writer and poet. His work has been printed in Coin Operated Press, Forest, and Honeycomb, amongst others. He has also published a cookbook entitled No One Cooks Alone, and spends his free time making lino prints.
