Join us for an evening of poetry with CAConrad, Nicky Melville, Tessa Berring & Vik Shirley!About this Event
CAConrad has worked with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. As a young poet they lived in Philadelphia, where they lost many loved ones during the early years of the AIDS crisis. Their latest book SIN BUG (Tenderbooks, 2025) documents the pervasive homophobic violence of that time in an unwavering testament to queer resilience. Their new collection, First Light, is forthcoming from Penguin Books. They exhibit poems as art objects with recent solo shows in London and Tucson, Arizona. They are currently based in Massachusetts, while travelling widely with regular teaching at the Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam. In 2022 they were awarded the Ruth Lilley Poetry Prize.
N[n]ick[-e]y M[m]elville, in the parlance of our times, is a 'creative': a poet, writer, an artist, an educator, musician, curator—the lot! Decade of Cu ts, his Selected poems, was published by Blue Diode in 2021 – a new collection with Blue Diode, GET TAE, has just been published. Other works include the concrete poetry sequence Power Cuts (zimZalla 2024) and his 400-page found poem The Imperative Commands (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2022). He makes music as Fuck This, a project which could be described as Ivor Cutler on [nick-]e. Melville is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow and a Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh. He lives in Edinburgh with his partner and Beckett (who is a whippet).Tessa:
Tessa Berring lives in Edinburgh. She is the author of Bitten Hair and Folded Purse (Blue Diode Press) Putty (If A Leaf Falls Press) and Cut Glass and No Flowers (Dancing Girl Press) She also works in visual art, translation, and collaboration.
Vik Shirley is a poet and writer from Bristol who lives in Edinburgh. Her publications include Corpses (Sublunary Editions, 2020), Strangers Wave (zimZalla 2023), Some Deer (Broken Sleep, 2024) and many more. In 2025, her third book of photo poetry Persona Digitalia was selected for the inaugural Photoworks photo poetry P5 series. Since published it has been exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and Poets House in New York. Vik has a PhD in Dark Humour and the Surreal
in Poetry. She is co-founder and
co-editor of Spite Press.
Event Venue
Typewronger Books, 4a Haddington Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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