Milk Poetry for CALM

Join us for a joyful night of spoken word and performance with all proceeds going to mental health charity CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably), featuring award-winning poet, and CALM Ambassador Cecilia Knapp.

Cecilia Knapp is a poet and novelist and the Young People’s Laureate for London 2020/2021. She was shortlisted for the 2022 Forward prize for best single poem. She is the winner of the 2021 Ruth Rendell award and has been shortlisted for both the Rebecca Swift Women’s prize. Her debut poetry collection Peach Pig was published by Corsair in 2022 and was the Observer’s poetry book of the month for October 2022. Her poems have appeared in The Financial Times, Granta, The White Review, Wasafiri, Popshot, Ambit, Magma and bath magg and anthologised. She curated the anthology Everything is Going to be alright: Poems for When you Really Need Them, published by Trapeze in 2021. Her debut novel Little Boxes is published by The Borough Press and was longlisted for The Authors Club Best First Novel Award.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Wardrobe Theatre, 25 West Street, Bristol, United Kingdom