Hi Zero 2017 begins in the following fashion, with:

Sandeep Parmar is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Liverpool. Her books include: Reading Mina Loy’s Autobiographies: Myth of the Modern Woman, scholarly editions of the Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees and the Collected Poems of Nancy Cunard (Carcanet) and two books of poetry, The Marble Orchard and Eidolon (Shearsman). Her essays and reviews have appeared in the Guardian, The Los Angeles Review of Books, the Financial Times and the TLS. She is a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker and Co-Director of Liverpool’s Centre for New and International Writing.

Tom Allen’s writing was recently described as “bombastic” by the Süddeutsche Zeitung. He is currently based in London and is a doctoral student at the University of Sussex. In early 2015 he published “Watch-Fires” with Materials Press, and his writing has appeared most recently in The Literateur and Brexit: Borders Kill.

Nisha Ramayya’s pamphlets Notes on Sanskrit (2015) and Correspondences (2016) are published by Oystercatcher Press. She teaches English and Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of Kent, and is a member of the Race & Poetry & Poetics in the UK research group.

The usual music from a thing, books, bar, music and discussion, upstairs at the Hope & Ruin, just down from the train station in Brighton.