Tickets are £5 or £4 for concessions (and open mic readers!) and can be booked here. A link will be sent in advance enabling you to join the event via Zoom. All proceeds raised go to South Street Arts Centre and paying our guest poets.

Born and educated in Baddawi refugee camp in Lebanon, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh is a poet and translator who completed his doctorate in English Literature at the University of Oxford. Time, the body and ruination inform his poetry and prose, which have appeared inModern Poetry in Translation, Critical Quarterly, Cambridge Literary Review, PN Review, Stand, New England Review, Poetry London and Wasafiri. Yousif is the Creative Encounters Editor of the Migration and Society journal and Writer-in-Residence for the Refugee Hosts project. His debut collection, Writing the Camp (Broken Sleep Books, 2021), was a 2021 PBS Recommendation; was selected as one of the Best Poetry Books of 2021 by the Telegraph and the Irish Times; was highly commended by the 2021 Forward Prizes for Poetry; and was shortlisted for the 2022 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. Yousif’s latest books are Eating the Archive (2023) and (with E. Fiddian-Qasmiyeh and Saiful Huq Omi) The Southern Eye (2024) (both published by Broken Sleep Books).

Click HERE to book your ticket. A zoom link will be sent to you on the day.