Eating Air Launch Event

Suyin will read poems from Eating Air, alongside readings from Nina Mingya Powles, Pratyusha and Elhum Shakerifar. Drinks will be available to purchase from the bar, and there'll be some tasty Malaysian treats to enjoy too!

"Tender, sensuous, and quietly devastating" ~ Romalyn Ante

"A deliciously fluent stroll – ‘makan angin’, eating air – with the characters and conversations that shape the poet’s food memories." ~ Jenny Lau

Steam rises from bowls of noodle soup, tender steaks are seared in butter, sand-roasted chestnuts are shared from a paper bag. Eating Air is a mouth-watering collection of poems about food, belonging and connection.

Suyin Du Bois is a poet of mixed Chinese-Malaysian and Belgian heritage, living in London with her South African husband. She is an alumna of the Southbank Centre’s New Poets Collective and her poems have been published in journals and anthologies internationally. When not obsessing over word choice, Suyin spends her time building a profit-with-purpose start-up that seeks to ensure 24/7 access to nutritious, affordable food for NHS hospital staff.

Nina Mingya Powles is a writer and poet from Aoterea, New Zealand. She is the author of several books including In The Hollow of the Wave (2025), a collection of poems and collages, and Small Bodies of Water (2021), a collection of essays.

Pratyusha is an Indo-Swiss writer based in London. Most recently, her pamphlet this too is a glistening was published by Bitter Melon Press, and co-authored with the Fieldnotes Collective. The collective has also recently worked together to release Tendrils: Ecopoetics of Community and Justice, a poetry anthology, edited for Silver Press. Pratyusha’s other pamphlets are Second Memory (Guillemot), bulbul calling (Bitter Melon Press) and Night Waters (Zarf Editions).

Elhum Shakerifar is a London-based poet; she works with words and images — on the page, on screen and in translation. She runs Hakawati ("storyteller" in Arabic) and collects hums.

Entry only tickets are £4 plus fees or £11 for a copy of the book with entry plus fees. The pamphlet will be available in store on the night for £7.99 RRP.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Morocco Bound Bookshop Wandsworth, New Acres, London, United Kingdom

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