Hi Zero present the last poetry reading of the series until September, featuring the launch of Harry Gilonis’s new ‘Rough Breathing: Selected Poems’ from Carcanet, and featuring readings from:

Harry Gilonis is a poet, editor, publisher, and occasional critic. Much of his work is inter-textual, involving widely-varying modes of translation and mis-translation, straight and skewed. For British Workers - versions of revolutionary poems by Mayakovsky and others – came out from Barque Press in 2017, and endeavours to catch the poetry of radical optimism that followed on from 1917. Rather less straightforward is North Hills, 'faithless’ recastings of classical Chinese verse (which turns out to be the most avant-garde writing up until L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E). Harry Gilonis’s most recent book is Rough Breathing, a Selected Poems just out from Carcanet; this Hi Zero reading is its coastal launch.

Naomi Weber is a poet and early years teaching assistant, amongst other things. Her book Very Lonely Animals was published by Materials Press in 2016, and another chapbook entitled The Swimmers has recently emerged from Winter Olympics Press. She lives in Oxford but will soon live in London.

Azad Ashim Sharma is a poet living in South London. His book Against the Frame was published by Barque Press in 2017; his numerous readings include appearances at Rivet and What You Saying in London, and at the Words in the Garden literature festival in New Delhi. Azad co-founded the now disbanded Sussex Guild of Poetry, which published and distributed student poetry across campus.

The usual music from a thing, books, bar, and discussion

Doors at 7:30pm for an 8:00pm start. £3 for all. Bring your friends, and any very lonely animals.