A event on Thursday 23rd October. The event starts at 19:00.
Join us at East Bristol Books for the ninth instalment of our poetry reading series Tottering State. This time we will have Jazmine Linklater launching her latest poetry collection *Snagged on red thread* (Monitor Books), and readings by Zoë Skoulding and Nia Davies
Jazmine Linklater is a poet and writer based in Manchester where she is a regional editor for the online art writing platform Corridor8. She has published four poetry chapbooks, most recently *Figure a Motion* (Guillemot Press, 2020). From October 2025 she is undertaking practice-based research in art writing and ekphrastic encounters at Sheffield University.
Zoë Skoulding is a poet and literary critic interested in translation, sound and ecology. She is Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Bangor University. Her latest collection of poems is *A Marginal Sea* (Carcanet Press, 2022). Previous collections (published by Seren Books) include * Remains of a Future City* (2008), shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year, *The Museum of Disappearing Sounds* (2013), shortlisted for Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry; and *Footnotes to Water* (2019), which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and won the Wales Book of the Year Poetry Award 2020. That year she also published *A Revolutionary Calendar* (Shearsman). She received the Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors in 2018 for her body of work in poetry.
Nia Davies is a poet experimenting with performance, embodied practice, intermedia and hybrid writing. She is also a writer, researcher, performer and literary curator. Her second collection of poems, *Votive Mess*, was published by Bloodaxe in 2024. Nia was recently awarded a doctorate for research into poetry and ritual at the University of Salford. Her first book-length collection of poems *All fours* (Bloodaxe, 2017) was shortlisted for the Roland Matthias Prize for Poetry (2018) and longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize for First collection (2019). This followed the pamphlets *England* (Crater, 2017), *Çekoslovakyalılaştıramadıklarımızdanmısınız or Long Words* (Hafan/Boiled String, 2016) and *Then Spree* (Salt, 2012). She was editor of the international quarterly magazine Poetry Wales from 2014 to 2019.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
Jazmine Linklater is a poet and writer based in Manchester where she is a regional editor for the online art writing platform Corridor8. She has published four poetry chapbooks, most recently *Figure a Motion* (Guillemot Press, 2020). From October 2025 she is undertaking practice-based research in art writing and ekphrastic encounters at Sheffield University.
Zoë Skoulding is a poet and literary critic interested in translation, sound and ecology. She is Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Bangor University. Her latest collection of poems is *A Marginal Sea* (Carcanet Press, 2022). Previous collections (published by Seren Books) include * Remains of a Future City* (2008), shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year, *The Museum of Disappearing Sounds* (2013), shortlisted for Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry; and *Footnotes to Water* (2019), which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and won the Wales Book of the Year Poetry Award 2020. That year she also published *A Revolutionary Calendar* (Shearsman). She received the Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors in 2018 for her body of work in poetry.
Nia Davies is a poet experimenting with performance, embodied practice, intermedia and hybrid writing. She is also a writer, researcher, performer and literary curator. Her second collection of poems, *Votive Mess*, was published by Bloodaxe in 2024. Nia was recently awarded a doctorate for research into poetry and ritual at the University of Salford. Her first book-length collection of poems *All fours* (Bloodaxe, 2017) was shortlisted for the Roland Matthias Prize for Poetry (2018) and longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize for First collection (2019). This followed the pamphlets *England* (Crater, 2017), *Çekoslovakyalılaştıramadıklarımızdanmısınız or Long Words* (Hafan/Boiled String, 2016) and *Then Spree* (Salt, 2012). She was editor of the international quarterly magazine Poetry Wales from 2014 to 2019.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
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