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Poetry Reading at 1b Books | Fatema Abdoolcarim, Kym Deyn, Megan Pattie
17th November | 6.30-8.30pm | 1b Books, Bolingbroke Street, Heaton, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE6 5PH | Free, booking required
Join us for a free poetry reading in collaboration with Monitor Books, held at 1b Books Newcastle, with Fatema Abdoolcarim, Kym Deyn and Megan Pattie.
Fatema Abdoolcarim is an Indian-Pakistani Hong Konger who makes films and writes. Her films have been shown internationally, including at Locarno Film Festival, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and Osaka Asian Film Festival. Tremble is her debut collection of poetry, and was a Poetry Book Society Spring Pamphlet Choice. She lives in the Baltic Sea, on the island of Bornholm.
Kym Deyn is a writer and editor. Their debut collection folkish was published by Nine Arches in 2026 and was made a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Their pamphlets include Dionysia published by Verve Poetry Press, and Unfurl, a collaborative fiction experiment. They have been widely published in anthologies and journals for their poetry and prose, including Oxford Poetry, 14 Poems and Strange Horizons, and are the recipient of a Jerwood Fellowship from New Writing North. They run The Braag CIC, a poetry and speculative fiction press.
Megan Pattie’s writing explores subjects ranging from the Gothic, mythology, and the natural world, to food, mental health, and small moments of wonder. She is a previous Foyle Young Poet, and has been published in a variety of journals, as well as anthologies from Eibonvale Press, The Emma Press, Fragmented Voices, Dreich, and the Black Light Engine Room, who also published her pamphlet, Tracts. Megan's debut collection Bertha Comes Down was published in February 2026 by Broken Sleep Books.
NCLA | PBS Showcase with Grace Nichols, Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe and Don Mee Choi
11th November | 6.30 - 7.30pm | Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University, NE1 7RY | Free, booking required
NCLA and the Poetry Book Society are delighted to present this unique chance to hear new work from three radical, internationally celebrated poets: Don Mee Choi, Grace Nichols and Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe.
Grace Nichols will read from The Tracks of My Name, and Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe will read from Stay Winter – both PBS Autumn selections. Don Mee Choi will read from Freely Frayed, her new collection forthcoming from And Other Stories in what promises to be an electric evening of the best in world poetry.
Grace Nichols was awarded The Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry for 2021. Her poetry is studied in UK schools as part of the GCSE National Curriculum. Grace will be reading from The Tracks of My Name.
Don Mee Choi is a highly innovative poet and a translator. Her work slips between forms, mixing poetry, lyric essay, memoir, and visual image. Incorporating archives, photographs and fragments of memory, Choi’s poetry explores historical events and the human impact of war. She was born in Seoul, South Korea, into a family forced to leave Korea in 1972 when she was a child, during the Park Chung Hee dictatorship. Her books include the highly acclaimed KOR-US trilogy (Hardly War, DMZ Colony and Mirror Nation, the three titles originally published in the USA by Wave Books between 2016 and 2024). DMZ Colony won the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry. Her translations of Kim Hyesoon’s poetry won the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.
Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe is poet, pacifist and fabulist. Her debut, Auguries of a Minor God (2021), was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, among others. Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe will be reading from Stay Winter.
The poets will read and be in conversation with Dr Tara Bergin, Senior Lecturer in Writing Poetry (Creative Writing) at Newcastle University.
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