A event on Tuesday 17th March. The event starts at 19:00.
Join us for a showcase of the wonderful poetry publisher the87press, with readings by poets Megan Pinto, Emily Lee Luan and Mantra Mukim, and support from poet and artist Ralph Hoyte.
Emily Lee Luan is the author of *回 / Return*, a winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize and published by the87press in the UK, and *I Watch the Boughs* (2021), selected by Gabrielle Calvocoressi for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow and the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2021, American Poetry Review, Lithub, and elsewhere. She teaches at Adelphi University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Megan Pinto is the author of *Saints of Little Faith*, published by the87press (2025, UK) and Four Way Books (2024, US). Her poems can be found in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Ploughshares, Lit Hub and elsewhere. She has won the Anne Halley Prize from the Massachusetts Review and an Amy Award from Poets & Writers, as well as scholarships and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference and Storyknife. Megan lives in Brooklyn and holds an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College.
Mantra Mukim is a poet and essayist from Raipur, India. currently based in Oxford. His work has appeared in Minor Literature, SpamZine, Datableed, Poetry Review, Hotel, and Rialto among other places. His Hindi poems have been featured in समावर्तन (Samavartan) and anthologised in युवा द्वादश (Twelve Young Poets). He co-edits *Almost Island*. His debut poetry collection, *Glitchwork* will be published by the87press in February 2026. As a researcher, he has published the monograph *Samuel Beckett’s Lyric Failure*(Bloomsbury, 2025) and co-edited the volume *Literature and Event: 21st Century Reformulations* (Routledge, 2021) with Derek Attridge.
Ralph Hoyte is a Bristol poet, writer and soundart designer. He specializes in live-
art poetry: poemscripts written either for his voice or for multiple voices and tending towards the epic in length and/or the experimental. Ralph is a Visiting Fellow at the University of the West of England (Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries and Education) and a Resident of the Pervasive Media Studio/Bristol.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
Emily Lee Luan is the author of *回 / Return*, a winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize and published by the87press in the UK, and *I Watch the Boughs* (2021), selected by Gabrielle Calvocoressi for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow and the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2021, American Poetry Review, Lithub, and elsewhere. She teaches at Adelphi University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Megan Pinto is the author of *Saints of Little Faith*, published by the87press (2025, UK) and Four Way Books (2024, US). Her poems can be found in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Ploughshares, Lit Hub and elsewhere. She has won the Anne Halley Prize from the Massachusetts Review and an Amy Award from Poets & Writers, as well as scholarships and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference and Storyknife. Megan lives in Brooklyn and holds an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College.
Mantra Mukim is a poet and essayist from Raipur, India. currently based in Oxford. His work has appeared in Minor Literature, SpamZine, Datableed, Poetry Review, Hotel, and Rialto among other places. His Hindi poems have been featured in समावर्तन (Samavartan) and anthologised in युवा द्वादश (Twelve Young Poets). He co-edits *Almost Island*. His debut poetry collection, *Glitchwork* will be published by the87press in February 2026. As a researcher, he has published the monograph *Samuel Beckett’s Lyric Failure*(Bloomsbury, 2025) and co-edited the volume *Literature and Event: 21st Century Reformulations* (Routledge, 2021) with Derek Attridge.
Ralph Hoyte is a Bristol poet, writer and soundart designer. He specializes in live-
art poetry: poemscripts written either for his voice or for multiple voices and tending towards the epic in length and/or the experimental. Ralph is a Visiting Fellow at the University of the West of England (Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries and Education) and a Resident of the Pervasive Media Studio/Bristol.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
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