Age guidance: All welcome

Join us for poetry readings and audience Q&A with petals and Rushika Wick.

petals – she/they – is a composer, poet, and multi-instrumentalist living on the hidden river Effra in London. She is the author of Kalimba (Guillemot Press), Marsh-River-Raft-Feather (Guillemot Press co-authored with Clarissa Álvarez), and & glee & bless (Guillemot Press). Find her music on bandcamp.

Rushika Wick’s first poetry collection Afterlife As Trash (Verve 2021) was highly commended in the Forward prizes and concerns selfhood and value in late stage capitalism. She has work in Poetry Review, Magma, Bathmagg, Ambit, The Telegraph and Poetry Birmingham amongst others. Rushika runs sunseekers poetry project with Ana Seferovic – curating multidisciplinary and cross-modal events.

Length: 1.30 hours