the87press celebrates its 3rd Birthday with a poetry reading featuring John Wilkinson, Holly Pester, Rogelio Braga, and Fred Spoiler

the87press resumes its in-person live reading series at the Roebuck SE1 on 15th July 2021.
4 poets will read and capacity is reduced to 30 with social distancing measures in place.
The event will open at 7pm so please arrive on-time for a 7.30pm start.
Books will be on sale and can be bought using CARD ONLY.

John Wilkinson is an English poet now Director of the Program in Creative Writing at the University of Chicago and a Professor in the Department of English. His publications stretch back to 1976, but his most recent books are My Reef My Manifest Array (poetry, Carcanet 2019), Lyric in Its Times (criticism, Bloomsbury Academic 2019), The Following (essays, The Last Books 2000) and this year, Wood Circle (poem cycle, The Last Books). Before leaving for the US in 2005, he worked for the National Health Service in the East End of London, where he was the public health lead for mental health.

Holly Pester is a poet and writer. She has worked in sound art and performance, with BBC Radio, Women’s Art Library and Wellcome Collection. She has written critical creative work on lullabies and rest/worksongs, and her debut collection, Comic Timing was published by Granta in February 2021.

Rogelio Braga is an exiled playwright, novelist, essayist, publisher, and human rights activist from the Philippines. They had published two novels, a collection of short stories, and a book of plays before they left the archipelago in 2018. Braga was a Fellow for Theatre of the Asian Cultural Council in New York in 2016. Miss Philippines, their first play written entirely in English is currently under development commissioned by the New Earth Theatre in London. Braga's new play Till Human Voices Wake Us is part of Theatre Témoin's NHS Yarns project with the Mercury Theatre in Colchester.

fred spoliar is a poet and education worker living in London. Recent poems can be found in publications including algia, datableed, erotoplasty, PIGS, and tentacular.