The Poetry Society is delighted to present the launch readings for the Spring 2024 issue of The Poetry Review, edited by Wayne Holloway-Smith, with guest readers Rashed Aqrabawi, Tiffany Atkinson, Joe Carrick-Varty and Inua Ellams.

Rashed Aqrabawi, Tiffany Atkinson, Joe Carrick-Varty and Inua Ellams.

Reader bios:

Rashed Aqrabawi has written for BOMB Magazine and the L.A. Review of Books. He is the winner of the 2024 BOMB Poetry Prize. He was born in Amman.

Tiffany Atkinson lives in Norwich and teaches at the University of East Anglia; her most recent collection is Lumen (Bloodaxe Books, 2021).

Joe Carrick-Varty is the author of More Sky (Carcanet, 2023), which won an Eric Gregory Award and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. His second collection is forthcoming in 2026.

Inua Ellams is a cross-disciplinary artist, internationally touring performer, poet, playwright, screenwriter, graphic artist and designer. His full-length collection The Actual was published in 2020.

This is a free online event.