East London: Edgelands and Elsewheres

A free evening of poetry, launching two collections of poetry by East London poets:

Jude Rosen’s collection ‘Reclamations from London’s Edgelands’ (Paekakariki, 2024) – an urban pastoral poem of the marshlands and harshlands of East London, based on walks through the ecology, and echoing voices of the marshes from oral histories and archives.

Derrick Porter’s collection ‘The Art of Timing’ (Paekakariki, 2024) and reading also from ‘Voices of Hoxton’ (thisis, 2015) that venture far and wide from the tragi-comic childhood of a Hoxton lad to his physical, historical and literary travels round the world, taking a side swipe at the art world as he goes, and dedicating a long love poem to a Russian donkey!