Name: Peter Barlow's Cigarette #47
Start: 2025-02-15T14:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-02-15T16:00:00+00:00
Location: The Carlton Club

Peter Barlow's Cigarette #47 ~ ft. Sam Commotion, Nia Davies, Nat Raha

An afternoon of alternative poetries
4.00 - 6.00pm, The Carlton Club, Carlton Road, Whalley Range
Free entry, but booking strongly advised
~~ || FOR COVID SAFETY MEASURES, & ACCESSIBILITY INFO, PLEASE READ BELOW || ~~
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SAM COMMOTION ~
has contributed bits of writing to various zines, websites and things, pretty much all pseudonymously or anonymously. No Argument Against Their Uselessness is his first poetry collection. He has written a great number of emails.

NIA DAVIES ~
is a poet and researcher based in Wales/Cymru. Her second collection of poems was recently published by Bloodaxe, Votive Mess is a study in the altered states of performance, travel, masks, comedy, learning and love. The book contains some unfinished experiments in liminality, small rebellions against exhaustion and alienation, lingual brambles, shabby theatre and drowsy love letters. Nia's previous publications include All fours (2017), editorship of Poetry Wales (2014-2019) and co-curation of the Poetry Emergency festivals. She is currently an interdisciplinary researcher at the University of Swansea and part of the experimental curatorial collective NAWR.

NAT RAHA ~
is a poet, and Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies at the Glasgow School of Art. Her poetry is of an experimental queer lyric, attending to hirstories of struggle and resistance to racial capitalism, through de/re/materialising sound, form and syntax, on the page and in performance.
Her books of poetry include apparitions (nines) (Nightboat Books, 2024), of sirens, body & faultlines (Boiler House Press, 2018), and countersonnets (Contraband Books, 2013). Nat’s work is anthologised in 100 Queer Poems and We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics. Her poetry has been translated in numerous languages. Performance work includes epistolary (on carceral islands), co-commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival and TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway, 2023.
Recent critical writing appears in Queer Print in Europe, Transgender Marxism, New Feminist Literary Studies and Third Text (‘Imagining Queer Europe then and now’, 2021). With Mijke van der Drift, Nat is co-author of Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds (Pluto Press, 2024), co-editor of Radical Transfeminism zine, and co-author of the article ‘“They would plant the rose garden themselves”: Femmeness, Complicity, Solidarity’, published in Social Text.

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Accessibility info:
There are a small number of steps up to enter the venue; unfortunately they do not currently have ramp access, though they are working to sort it for the future. Once inside, the venue is all level and has accessible toilets. The event will be seated, and some chairs can be moved to accommodate any particular requirements. Children are welcome at our events (though we can't guarantee all poetry will be child-friendly in content). If you have any questions, or any accessibility requirements not covered here which you would like to discuss with us, please do get in touch, and we'll do everything in our power to accommodate you.

Covid safety
Since the risks of the Covid-19 virus are still present, we would like to take what measures we can to make this event as safe as possible. We would ask that you consider taking a lateral flow test before you come to the event, and obviously don't come if it is positive. Similarly, if you have any potential Covid symptoms, or think you've come into contact with someone who might have it, please stay away.