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From The Library at Deptford Lounge

Vicky Sparrow and Oluwaseun (Seun) Olayiwola

Thursday 10 April, 6.45pm

Age Guidance: All are welcome

Join us for a relaxed evening of poetry readings + Q&A with Vicky Sparrow and Oluwaseun (Seun) Olayiwola.

Vicky Sparrow works across poetry, sound, performance and criticism. Her poetry collections are stand ins (RunAmok, 2023) and Notes to Selves (Zarf, 2016); and her writing appears in Vortext, Ludd Gang, Writing Utopia, para.text, datableed, and elsewhere. Vicky teaches literature at the University of Nottingham and lives in South London.

Oluwaseun (Seun) Olayiwola is a poet, critic, choreographer and performer based in London. His creative and critical work has been published in: the Guardian, The Poetry Review, PN Review, Oxford Poetry, the Telegraph, the TLS and elsewhere. His choreographic work has been presented at the V&A, The Place, The Central School of Ballet, and Studio Voltaire. He’s been commissioned by Royal Society of Literature, Ledbury Poetry Festival, Southwark Council, and Studio 3 Arts. Seun has an MFA in Choreography from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, where he was a Fulbright Scholar in 2018-2019. He recently began lecturing in dance in the Kingston School of Art. Seun is a member of the inaugural Rose Choreographic School at Sadler’s Wells.

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes