Bodymuck: Three Readings

Readings start at 8pm

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VIDA ADAMCZEWSKI is an award-winning disabled writer. Her lyric play, AMPHIBIAN, was commissioned for the Play Mill Festival in 2021 at the King’s Head Theatre, Islington. IN 2022, Vida received the UEA New Forms Award from the National Writing Centre for AMPHIBIAN. Vida performs regularly at live poetry events across London and is the founder of Yer Bard, a monthly poetry event in South East London. Her writing appears in The London Magazine, Mslexia, Document Journal, Ambit and Vittles. Vida’s debut collection of writing, Amphibian & Other Bodies, was published by Toothgrinder Press in November 2023.

CAOILINN HUGHES is the author of The Wild Laughter, which won the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award and was longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and Orchid & the Wasp, which won the Collyer Bristow Prize and was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. She was recently the Oscar Wilde Centre Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, and a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library.

YASMINE SEALE is a writer and artist whose work includes poetry, criticism, translation and printmaking. Among her translations from Arabic are The Annotated Arabian Nights (W. W. Norton, 2021), described by the New Yorker as “an electric new translation”, and Something Evergreen Called Life, a collection of poems by the Sudanese writer and activist Rania Mamoun (Action Books, 2022). She is the co-author of Agitated Air (Tenement Press, 2022), a collaboration with Robin Moger responding to the visionary poet and metaphysician Ibn Arabi. She is currently a fellow of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She also teaches in the Writing Program at Columbia University.