Join us for readings from three new poetry books by Colin Bramwell, Patrick Romero McCafferty and Charles Lang.

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Fower Pessoas is the most original work of translation that you will read this year: a bold reimagining of Fernando Pessoa’s poetry. Following his subject’s unique approach to composition, Colin Bramwell puts all four of Pessoa’s heteronyms into a present-day Scots-language vernacular, and so creates a parochial Pessoa for our own times. Readers will be delighted by this witty, emotive and artful reinterpretation of an indispensable European poet.

The poems in Patrick Romero McCafferty’s debut pamphlet Glass Knot Sun pose perennial questions of land, love, and labour. They do this through the central metaphors of building (from adobe bricks to boat-making) and gathering (from windfall almonds to trawling nets), the poem becoming part record of subsistence, part song.

With a clarion and uncompromising voice, Charles Lang’s first collection The Oasis maps a labyrinth of memories, blending sharp wit with darker undercurrents as he explores identity, masculinity, class and ecology. Lang offers an authentic snapshot of working-class lives, where beauty is found in both the mundane and the extraordinary; in the human and the more-than-human. A sonorous celebration of language and place, The Oasis is a vivid ode to the city’s streets and stories, a testament to resilience and belonging.