Hi Zero’s annual collective obscene emoji returns with a line-up not to be missed.

This will be an end-of-year thing featuring many more poets than usual, books, bar, music from a thing, and discussion.

Owen Brakspear writes what could perhaps be called poetry whenever he finds the time, whilst doing a Masters in Comparative Literatures and Cultures.

Nina Ward is 24 year old writer from Chester. She recently completed her MA in Creative and Critical Writing at The University of Sussex. Her interests are headless saints, visceral poetics and apostrophes. She is an advocate of trepanation for the NHS.

Stavros is a performance poet and student of intelligent and adaptive systems at the University of Sussex.He likes to write about mental health, politics and the overabundance and ontology of hipsters. He has performed across many nights in London and Brighton.Including: spoken word london, extra second, Folked up, Propped Up, week behind bars and an event for Yanis Varoufakis’ DiEM25 branch in London. In 2019 He received a scholarship from Louvana records and the US embassy of Cyrpus to study theatre under Athina Kassiou and perform at the fengaros music festival as part of the fengaros music village collective.

Nehaal Bajwa is technically a PhD student at the University of Sussex, working on fathering in Pakistan, who has ventured out of post-election writing seclusion to shuffle awkwardly about in front of you, and is a member of the Devil’s Dyke Network.

Louis Klee is an Australian writer. He grew up in the Australian Capital Territory on Ngunnawal land and is a currently a graduate student at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. His poems, described at once as ‘urgent and politically charged’ and as ‘oblique and musical, corresponding to those incantatory states that cannot be paraphrased’, have won the Peter Porter Prize and been anthologised in Best Australian Poems. With Imogen Cassels and Robert Newton, he edits the small roughly Cambridge, UK poetry magazine, fennel rising.

Luke Roberts wrote Rosa (2019), Sorbet (2018), Headphones (2017) and the forthcoming Landscaping Under Duress. He lives in London.

Anna Jepson was the first poet on the moon.

Joseph Persad lives out a cycle of intense repetitions in London. By pressing into or against these repetitions in numerous ways, distinct patterns and other flourishes emerge, as whirlpools will within a river’s constant flow. Of these some are salvageable as poems. Of these none would guarantee recognisable effect. That’s just the way it is.

Polly McCormack is a West Yorkshire poet and English student living in Brighton.

Colin Lee Marshall lives in Seoul. He edits the straight-to-pdf zine Erotoplasty, and his books Nidors and Nidors (2) have been published by Crater Press.

Beattie is a drag queen, English student and writer living in Brighton. They like to think they are significantly less unbearable than these facts suggest. Their work deals with foxes, Catholic theology and the art of being single. You can find them on Twitter @LydiaHax.

Daniel Spicer writes about music for The Wire and Jazzwise magazines. He is the author of Anadolu Psych, published by Repeater in 2018, and Lost In The Vaults, published by Eleusinian Press in 2019. His poems have appeared in Datableed, Erotoplasty and on BBC Radio 3. He has self-published three poetry chapbooks: Osshole Accidents in 2012, Notes For Colour in 2015 and From The Bottom Of The Tower in 2018. A collection of his poems, collage and dreams entitled These Changes has just been published by Slightly Off Kilter, and his poem ‘Vertigo but the eye is stoned’ has just been published as part of the Hi-Zero Z-fold series.

Ed Luker is a poet, teacher, and writer. He teaches at University of Surrey, Birkbeck, and the Bishopsgate Institute. His latest book is Heavy Waters on The87Press. He is tired.

All taking place upstairs at the Hope & Ruin, Queen’s Road, Brighton, on Tuesday 17th December.