Hi Zero #58 features readings by the following poets:

Lee Ann Brown has published five collections of poetry including an on-going NC Ode. The first of that series, “In the Laurels, Caught” (Fence Books, 2013) won the Fence Modern Poetry Series Award. She performs her work locally and internationally and is known for her refigurings of traditional poetic form as well as her rewritten hymns and ballads. She teaches poetry at St. John’s University in New York City and has been awarded fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Howard Foundation and is the current Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow at Cambridge University. She’s also founding editor of Tender Buttons Press and curatesperformances emphasizing sonic, performative and collaborative properties of poetry.

Sonnet L’Abbé, Ph.D. is the author of “A Strange Relief” and “Killarnoe,” and was the 2014 guest editor of Best Canadian Poetry. Her chapbook, “Anima Canadensis,” was published by Junction Books in 2016, and won the 2017 bpNichol Chapbook Award. In her next collection, “Sonnet’s Shakespeare,” L’Abbé “writes over" all 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets. L'Abbé is a professor of Creative Writing and English at Vancouver Island University.

Alison Rumfitt is an Rhysling Award-nominated poet who writes, in what is only partly her words, ‘confessional poetry for things that eat people’. She studies English Literature at Sussex, and you can find her work in Strange Horizons, Eternal Haunted Summer and Liminality.

Music from a thing, books, bar, and discussion. All taking place upstairs at the Hope & Ruin on Queen’s Road, Brighton.

Doors at 7:30pm for an 8:00pm start. £3 for all. More info soon. Tell all your friends!