Join us for the launch of Steven Zultanski’s Help (Tenement Press) and Michael Nardone’s Convivialities (Talonbooks), also featuring a reading by Maria Sledmere.

Steven Zultanski is the author of ten books, including Help, Relief, On the Literary Means of Representing the Powerful as Powerless, Honestly, and Bribery. With the artist Ed Atkins, he co-wrote and co-directed Sorcerer, a theatrical project which has been realised as a play, a film, and a book. Atkins and Zultanski's new feature film premieres at Tate Britain in spring 2025. He lives in Copenhagen.

Michael Nardone is a poet and editor based in Montréal. His recent and forthcoming works include: Convivialities (a book of dialogues), Aural Poetics (an an edition on listening practices across the arts), Border Tuner (a monograph on Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, co-edited with Edgar Picazo Merino), the Documents on Expanded Poetics book series (co-edited with Nathan Brown), The Transatlantic Conversation (a translation of Abigail Lang’s monograph on contemporary French and US poetry), and The Ritualites (a book of poems).

Maria Sledmere’s most recent books are Languishing, cute (Tapsalteerie, 2025), Midsummer Song (Hypercritique) (No University/Tenement Press, 2024) and Cinders (Krupskaya, 2024). She is lecturer in English & Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde, director of SPAM Press and one half of the performance duo Project Somnolence. Her debut collection, The Luna Erratum, was shortlisted for the Saltire Society’s Scottish Poetry Book of the Year in 2022.