{"product_id":"poetry-reading-remi-graves-victoria-adukwei-bulley-dove-and-more","title":"Poetry Reading: Remi Graves, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Dove and more.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMonitor Books hosts an evening of readings and music to celebrate Remi Graves’ \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.monitorbooks.co.uk\/books\/coal\"\u003ecoal\u003c\/a\u003e (Monitor, 2025). With readings from Remi Graves, Victoria Adukwei-Bulley, dove \/ Christine Kirubi, and more TBC. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFood, drinks \u0026amp; books available to purchase at Present Tense\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e18:30\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout Coal:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBLACKFRIARS BRIDGE, 1905. A Black Cherokee man looking for his wife is arrested and charged as a ‘wandering lunatic’. In the City of London asylum, he is photographed; looking directly at the camera, he insists and refuses. He dies in the asylum one year later.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the absence of Paul Downing’s own account, Remi Graves writes from and into the trans archive, presenting a sequence of poems and experiments mapping resonances between selves across historical records. Through river crossings and library passes, chance meetings and visitations, coal is a document that interrogates what we do with the scattered fragments of a life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecoal was one of the winners of the 2024 Prototype Prize. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBios:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eRemi Graves \u003c\/em\u003eis a poet and drummer from London. A former Barbican Young Poet, their work has been featured on BBC Radio4, at St Paul’s Cathedral and in various anthologies. Their debut pamphlet, with your chest, was published by fourteen poems in 2022. coal won the inaugural Prototype Prize (short form category) in 2024.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003edove \/ Chris Kirubi \u003c\/em\u003eis a poet-artist based in London. Recent projects and performances include The Archive is a Gathering Place at Tate Britain in collaboration with Rhoda Boateng, The Blue House co-founded with Daniel Baker-Wells, and a collaborative improvisation at Décalé with (petals) Petero Kalulé. Recent commissioned texts include Fabulous Musics published in response to Shenece Oretha's UAL 20\/20 commission with Hepworth Wakefield and a note on audrey mbugua's dog published in the Jerwood Survey III catalogue in response to Ebun Sodipo's work. They are a lecturer at Slade School of Fine Art.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eVictoria Adukwei Bulley\u003c\/em\u003e is a British-born Ghanaian poet, writer, and filmmaker who was shortlisted for the Brunel University African Poetry Prize in 2016 and received an Eric Gregory Award for her pamphlet Girl B, published as part of the New Generation African Poets series in 2017. An alumna of both the Barbican Young Poets and Octavia Poetry Collectives, as well as a Complete Works and Instituto Sacatar fellow, Bulley has held residencies internationally in the US, Brazil, and the V\u0026amp;A. In 2019, she was awarded a TECHNĒ scholarship for fully-funded doctoral research at Royal Holloway, University of London; and in 2022 her debut collection, Quiet, circling around ideas of Black interiority, intimacy and selfhood, will be published by Faber. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Present Tense","offers":[{"title":"Low Income Ticket","offer_id":51812367925589,"sku":null,"price":6.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"One Session","offer_id":51812367958357,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.presenttense.co.uk\/products\/poetry-reading-remi-graves-victoria-adukwei-bulley-dove-and-more","provider":"Present Tense","version":"1.0","type":"link"}