ESEA poets on lineage, memory and song

Fri May 15 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm UTC+01:00

The Poetry Café.. | London

Red Bean Poetry
Publisher/HostRed Bean Poetry
ESEA poets on lineage, memory and song
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Join us for a brilliant evening of poetry by Natalie Linh Bolderston, Joshua Ip, Jerrold Yam and Jennifer Wong on lineage, memory and song
About this Event

Natalie Linh Bolderston is a Vietnamese-Chinese-British poet from Stoke-on-Trent. She has won an Eric Gregory Award and the Rebecca Swift Women Poets' Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. She is an alumna of the Roundhouse Poetry Collective, the London Library Emerging Writers' Programme, and Writing West Midlands' Room 204 programme. Her pamphlet,, was published by V. Press in 2019. Her debut full-length collection, , is forthcoming with Liverpool University Press in 2026

Joshua Ip is a Singaporean poet, editor and literary organiser. He has won some prizes and published some books. His latest book, (Landmark Books, 2024), selects poetry from his first five-ish collections, and new work spanning pop song translations to spoken word rants to experimental forms. He runs Sing Lit Station, an overactive literary charity that runs initiatives including SingPoWriMo. poetry.sg / joshuaip.com

Jerrold Yam is a Singaporean lawyer based in the City of London. He is the author of three poetry collections: (Ethos Books), (Math Paper Press) and (Math Paper Press). His poems have been published in Poetry London, Magma, The London Magazine, The Rialto, Oxford Poetry and others. In 2024, he won the Cheltenham Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize for Poetry, the Magma Poetry Pamphlet Competition and The London Magazine Poetry Prize. He was a 2024 Writer-in-Residence at the UK’s National Centre for Writing.

Jennifer Wong is the author of several collections including most recently L(2026) and (2020), both with a Poetry Society Recommendation from Nine Arches Press. She is currently a visiting lecturer for the MA in Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. She is also editing an anthology on selected works by women poets, entitled , for Rebecca Swift Foundation, forthcoming from Fly on the Wall Press in July this year.

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The Poetry Café.., 22 Betterton Street, London, United Kingdom

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