Inkandescent is an independent Brit queer publishing venture created by Justin David and Nathan Evans in London with a commitment to ideas, subjects, and voices underrepresented by mainstream publishing, and a hope to discover and celebrate original, diverse and transgressive literature and art, to challenge the status quo.
This week sees the October edition of their monthly BOLD Queer Poetry Soirée where they serve up spirited spoken word with a side of film and music.
For National Poetry Day they’re joined by John McCullough—whose latest collection Reckless Paper Birds won the 2020 Hawthornden Prize for literature and was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award—Andreena Leeanne—founder of Poetry LGBT and whose collection CHARRED is shortlisted for the 2021 Polari First Book Prize—and Kat Dixon—whose poems have appeared in The Rialto, Butcher’s Dog, Tears in the Fence, Queerlings, South Bank Poetry, and Mslexia.
‘McCullough has a reputation for crafting lyric poems of the every day with a surreal twist. In Reckless Paper Birds, the familiar yet strange is rarely more than a stanza away.’—The Guardian
‘Reckless Paper Birds is a timely and necessary collection which vibrates with protest; these poems are talismans against hate.’—Richard Scott
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2021 AT 2:30 PM EDT BOLD Queer Poetry Soirée Above The Stag Theatre, London
