Issue 18 launch and reading

Get ready for an evening celebrating queer poetry and the release of Issue 18 of fourteen poems, featuring four of the poets featured in the latest issue.

Celebrating LGBTQ+ stories and ideas, fourteen poems brings together 14 contemporary queer poets in every issue.

At the event, uou'll get to hear the poets read their poem - and a few other examples of their work - plus meet our editors Troy Cabida and Helen Bowell, and the publisher Ben Townley-Canning.

It’s an in-person event, so come chat, hang out, and enjoy the readings live.

The poets reading will be (in alphabetical order)

Jacob Davies-Lucas

Jacob Davies-Lucas is an Australian writer based in east London. He holds a Master’s of Creative Writing from the University of Sydney, where his work explored queer identity, Mormonism, and the quiet apocalypse of daily life. He has strong opinions about amateur theatre and once cried during a live recording of Mariah Carey. He is currently working on his debut novel and hoarding Pokémon cards pretending that it’s research.

Hannah Flynn

Hannah Flynn is a London-based bisexual woman writing candidly about sex, desire, power, and tenderness through an unapologetically queer lens.

Ellora Sutton

Ellora Sutton is a bisexual poet and PhD student based in Hampshire. She was the Poetry Book Society Spring 2023 Pamphlet Choice with Antonyms for Burial; her latest pamphlet, Artisanal Slush, is out now from Verve Poetry Press. She is the poetry reviewer for Mslexia, and her work has been published in The Poetry Review, The Madrigal, Oxford Poetry, Berlin Lit, Propel, And Other Poems, etc. Her debut collection, Little Bitch, will be published by Verve in April 2026.

Harper Walton

Harper Walton is the author of Common Only in Name (Porters Books) and Midnight Movies (Femmesocial Press), and the editor of Carnival at the End of the World (Buoy Press). Their work has been featured by 1883 Magazine, Whitechapel Gallery, Venice Architecture Biennale, and more.

Event Venue

Second Home Spitalfields, 68 Hanbury Street, London, United Kingdom

Concerts, fests, parties, meetups - all the happenings, one place.

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