Event overview
Poetry London and 牛牛资源 Writers' Centre present an evening of poetry
Poets Karen McCarthy Woolf, Francis-Xavier Mukiibi and Remi Graves read from and discuss their new work.
Karen McCarthy Woolf was a Fulbright postdoctoral scholar at UCLA in 2019, where she was poet-in-residence at the Promise Institute for Human Rights. In 2025 she won an RSL-Jerwood Poetry Award (England) and a Society of Authors Cholmondeley Award. Her d茅but An Aviary of Small Birds was an Observer Book of the Year and her verse novel Top Doll (Dialogue, 2024) was shortlisted for the T S Eliot and Jhalak Prizes. Unsafe, a disenchanted walk through the afterlives of colonialism across London and LA, is her third collection of poetry.
Francis-Xavier Mukiibi is a poet and performer of Ugandan heritage from North London. He was the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award for his debut pamphlet, Mutabani & [ ]ther Poems (Little Betty, 2025), and won Silver in the Creative Future Writers鈥� Award for 2024.
Remi Graves is a poet and drummer. A former Barbican Young Poet, their work has been commissioned by St Paul's Cathedral, Barbican and BBC Radio 4. Remi won the 2024 Prototype Prize for coal, published by Monitor Books in 2025.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 25 Feb 2026 | 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
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