Get Well Versed by joining us for a poetry reading and chat with Rachel Boast!

In this event, we welcome poet Rachel Boast to share some poems, have a chat, and give you a chance to ask questions as part of our Well Versed series in partnership with StAnza International Poetry Festival.

Please note, this Well Versed Author Event is from 3pm to 4pm

Rachael Boast is a British poet and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her debut collection, Sidereal (2011), won both the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize, and her later collections include Pilgrim’s Flower, which was listed for the Griffin Prize, Void Studies, listed for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and Hotel Raphael. Her most recent collection is Volvelle (Picador, July 2026). Rachael is also the editor of

Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent Poets (Bloodaxe Books, 2025).

The Well Versed Series

Each month we will host a different poet, with a chance to read their work a week in advance as part of our Well Versed Poetry Reading group, and to write in response to it the week after as part of our Well Versed Poetry Writing group.

Please note this event will be recorded by StAnza. Speakers will be spotlit on Zoom, but if you prefer to remain anonymous please keep your camera off when asking a question.