St Mungo’s Mirrorball is a network of poets in Glasgow, including emerging and established poets.

Romalyn Ante, Juana Adcock, Iona Lee, Lesley Benzie, Donna Campbell and Linda Jackson.

The event will be live at Waterstones – Sauchiehall Street – Lower Ground Floor (with an online link sent to members). 7pm-9pm (doors open 6.30pm), Waterstones, 153-157 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3EW. Wheelchair accessible. Tickets: £7 / £5 conc. on the door / Mirrorball members free Ages: 18+

Romalyn Ante FRSL is a Filipino-British poet, essayist, and editor. She was born in Lipa, Philippines. She was 16 years old when her mother – a nurse in the NHS – brought the family to the UK. Her debut collection, Antiemetic for Homesickness (Chatto, 2020), was shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her second collection, AGIMAT(Chatto, 2024), was Poetry Book Society Recommendation and The Observer Poetry Book of the Month. She is the co-founding editor of harana poetry, a magazine for poets who write in English as a second or parallel language. She was awarded the Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship in 2021-2022, sits on the editorial board for Poetry London magazine, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in the West Midlands where she works as a registered NHS nurse and psychotherapist, specialising in the mental healthcare of young people.

Juana Adcock is a Mexican poet, translator and editor based in Scotland, working in English and Spanish. She was a member of Clydebuilt 9, mentored by Liz Lochhead. She is the author of Manca (Tierra Adentro, 2014), Vestigial (Stewed Rhubarb, 2022), Dolly Parton y la traducción imposible (UANL), Split (Blue Diode, 2019), which was a Poetry Book Society Choice and I Sugar the Bones (Out-Spoken, 2024). She is co-editor of the anthology of poetry by Latin American women, Temporary Archives (Arc Publications, 2022), and her translations include the Mè’phàà poet Hubert Matiúwàa’s The Dogs Dreamt, Laura Wittner’s Translation of the Route (Bloodaxe/PTC, 2024) and Lola Ancira’s The Sadness of Shadows(MTO Press, 2024). She regularly performs at literary festivals internationally. 

Iona Lee is a poet, artist, music-maker, storyteller and spoken-word performer from Edinburgh. She has been a prominent member of Scotland’s live poetry scene for a decade, appearing on radio and television and performing her work in venues and on festival stages all over the UK and Europe. Her critically acclaimed debut collection, Anamnesis, was published by Polygon in 2023, and went on to win the Somerset Maugham Award. Her work is concerned with themes of folklore, philosophy, magic, media, truth and tale-telling, art and artifice, memory, and other hauntings.