About this Event
Join award-winning writers Canisia Lubrin and Nick Makoha at the intimate Studio 12 for a special evening of conversation and readings exploring poetics, Black aesthetics, migration, memory and visual art as a site of imaginative renewal.
Canisia Lubrin is a poet, writer, editor and professor. Author of Code Noir, The Dyzgraphxst, Voodoo Hypothesis, The World After Rain and Bright Machine (2026), Lubrin is the recipient of, among other distinctions, a Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Griffin Poetry Prize, Danuta Gleed Award, and Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.
Poet, playwright and founder of the Obsidian Foundation, Nick Makoha is one of the UK’s most compelling contemporary poets. His new collection, The New Carthaginians (Penguin, 2025), was shortlisted for the 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize. He has won the 2021 Ivan Juritz Prize and Poetry London Prize, and his debut collection, Kingdom of Gravity (2017), was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize and named one of The Guardian’s best books of the year.
This rare evening brings together two internationally acclaimed writers whose work reshapes the possibilities in contemporary poetry and fiction. The evening will include readings from Lubrin’s radiant new collection The World After Rain, as well as selections from Makoha’s T.S. Eliot Prize shortlisted collection The New Carthaginians.
Books by both authors will be available to purchase on the night from Round Table Books.
Studio 12’s bar will be open throughout the evening. Guests are welcome to stay after the conversation for drinks and book signings.
Tickets:
£8 = General Admission
£18 = Admission + £10 Book Voucher redeemable with Round Table Books
SCHEDULE:
6.30pm – arrival
7pm – start
8.30pm – book signing
8.30pm – drinks and bar open till late
About the Authors
Canisia Lubrin is the author of five books, Voodoo Hypothesis, The Dyzgraphxst, The World After Rain (2025), Code Noir and Bright Machine (2026). Her honours include a 2021 Windham-Campbell Prize, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Griffin Poetry Prize, Derek Walcott Prize, and the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. She has been twice a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award. The World After Rain earned Lubrin her second OCM Bocas Prize for poetry. She is associate professor and coordinator of the University of Guelph’s Creative Writing MFA and the poetry editor at McClelland & Stewart. Code Noir, Lubrin’s fiction debut and winner of the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, has 59 drawings by celebrated visual artist Torkwase Dyson. Born in St. Lucia, Lubrin lives in Whitby.
Dr Nick Makoha is a Ugandan poet and playwright based in London and founder of the Obsidian Foundation. His new collection, The New Carthaginians (Penguin, 2025), was shortlisted for the 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize. He has won the 2021 Ivan Juritz Prize and Poetry London Prize, and his debut collection, Kingdom of Gravity (2017), was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize and named one of The Guardian’s best books of the year. His work has appeared in leading international journals, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and one of the 100 Most Influential Africans of 2025.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Studio 12, 1 Addington Square, London, United Kingdom
GBP 5.04 to GBP 20.21
