About this Event
We’re excited to welcome back Wayne Holloway-Smith for a special reading event to celebrate the release of his newest collection 'RABBITBOX', a transfixing, heart-rending work which follows a mother and her young son living under the shadow of an all-consuming domestic threat.
Wayne will be joined by Rebecca Perry and Jane Yeh. Short poetry open mic slots will also be available on the night, on a first-come, first-served basis (please sign up on arrival).
Wayne Holloway-Smith is a British poet and the current editor of the Poetry Review. His debut collection, Alarum was shortlisted for the Roehampton Prize for Best Collection and the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Best First Collection. Love Minus Love was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Lobsters was published in January 2022. RABBITBOX is his latest release, a major new work from one of Britain's most exciting writers.
Rebecca Perry is a London-based poet and author. She has published several pamphlets and two book-length collections, Beauty/Beauty and Stone Fruit on Bloodaxe Books. She has won the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2017, and was also shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Her debut novel, May We Feed the King, was published by Granta Books in 2026.
Jane Yeh’s most recent collection, Discipline was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She was named a Next Generation poet by the PBS for her collection The Ninjas. Her first collection, Marabou, was shortlisted for the Forward, Whitbread, and Jerwood Aldeburgh poetry prizes.
Tickets are £12 and include complimentary drinks.
RABBITBOX will be available to purchase at the event.
If you'd like to come but can’t afford a ticket, please select a pay it forward ticket or email [email protected] — we have a limited number of free tickets and books available through our community pay-it-forward scheme.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Lala Books, 4a Grove Lane, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00 to GBP 12.50
