About this Event
Sophia will read from her new poetry pamphlet, Blood Tundra (Broken Sleep Books). There will also be readings from Anthony Anaxagorou, Sitron Panopoulos and Juliette Morton.
Blood Tundra is a fierce and luminous pamphlet where memory, loss, and survival collide. Sophia Argyris navigates grief, survival, and desire with an unflinching gaze, pulling the reader through landscapes of frost and fire, body and shadow. These poems are a study of endurance—of the self, the body, and the planet. Argyris writes with sharp lyricism, weaving tenderness and violence, intimacy and estrangement. Here, voices rise against absence, against erasure, against the weight of histories both personal and collective. These are poems of reclamation—haunting, visceral, and alive with possibility. Blood Tundra is arresting, unsettling, and unforgettable. (Vasiliki Albedo)
Poet Bios:
Sophia Argyris is of British-Greek heritage, born in Belgium. She was recently placed in the Ledbury Prize and has been published in And Other Poems, Banshee, Berlin Lit, Poetry Ireland Review and elswehere. Her pamphlets include Heronless (Palewell Press) and Blood Tundra (Broken Sleep).
Anthony Anaxagorou FRSL is a poet, essayist and publisher. His third collection, Heritage Aesthetics published with Granta Poetry in 2022, won the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2023 and was shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award. His second collection, After the Formalities published with Penned in the Margins was shortlisted for the 2019 T.S. Eliot Prize, along with the 2021 Ledbury Munthe Poetry Prize for Second Collections.
JLM Morton’s poetry has featured on BBC6 Music and in Poetry Review, Poetry London, Rialto, Magma, Mslexia and The London Magazine. She is the winner of the Geoffrey Dearmer, Laurie Lee and Poetry Archive Worldview Prizes and was highly commended by the Forward Prizes. Her debut poetry collection is Red Handed (Broken Sleep Books, 2024). Her second is Borrowed Ground, a Poetry Book Society Book of the Week (2026).
Sitron Panopoulos is an alumni of the Writing Poetry MA at Newcastle University. He has been a poet in residence at the Northern Museum and currently at Present Tense, London. His work has appeared in Seaford Review, Black Iris, PT 1.
Event venue & nearby stays
Present Tense, 4 Ferntower Road, London, United Kingdom
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