A event on Wednesday 29th October. The event starts at 19:00.
EBB welcomes US poet Gabrielle Bates on tour presenting her debut poetry collection *Judas Goat*, published in the UK by the 87press. Gabrielle Bates’ electrifying debut questions what it means to love another person and how to exorcise childhood fears. This collection wrestles with betrayal, forced obedience, violence and young womanhood.
Gabrielle will be joined by Catalan-American poet Emma Gomis, whose *Recupera* (87 Press) is a mixed-form autofictional volume of poetic essays consellating around the complex nature of sisterhood, addiction, and recovery. Emma's English-Catalan poem, *A Punch in the Gut of a Star/Un Cop de Puny al Ventre de'una Estrella* (Pamenar Press), was published in 2022 with Anne Waldman.
On *Judas Goat*:
"...through all the layers of large and little violences emerges a speaker who believes in love, a voice that yearns for the mysterious otherwhere: ‘I am too dying/ of what I don’t know.’ I was stunned by this magnificent debut—here is the voice of a poet I will be reading again and again." — Aria Aber, author of *Good Girl*
"Bates, with this debut, continues an aesthetic conversation populated by the work of such luminaries as Sylvia Plath (Ariel), Louise Glück (Wild Iris), and Mary Szybist (Incarnadine): American women poets writing towards an autonomy, a personal and artistic and sexual freedom long constrained by, among other patriarchal forces, the taboo of sentimentalism unevenly and unfairly scrutinized in the poetry of women." --D.S. Waldman
Bios:
Gabrielle Bates’s work has appeared in the New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and Ploughshares. Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, she currently lives in Seattle, Washington, where she cohosts the podcast The Poet Salon, works for Open Books: A Poem Emporium, and teaches occasionally through the University of Washington. www.gabriellebat.es
Emma Gomis is a Catalan American essayist, poet, academic, and translator. She has been published in Asymptote, The Brooklyn Rail, Entropy, Vice Magazine, Mother Jones, and La Opinión. She is the cofounder of Manifold Press, which publishes texts in experimental criticism. She holds a B.A. in Musicology and Hispanic Studies, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Poetics from Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, where she was also the Anne Waldman Fellowship recipient. She published *Recupera*, a book of interwoven essays and autofiction, with the 87press in 2025, and co-published *A Punch in the Gut of a Star/Un Cop de Puny al Ventre de'una Estrella* (Pamenar Press) in 2022 with Anne Waldman.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
Gabrielle will be joined by Catalan-American poet Emma Gomis, whose *Recupera* (87 Press) is a mixed-form autofictional volume of poetic essays consellating around the complex nature of sisterhood, addiction, and recovery. Emma's English-Catalan poem, *A Punch in the Gut of a Star/Un Cop de Puny al Ventre de'una Estrella* (Pamenar Press), was published in 2022 with Anne Waldman.
On *Judas Goat*:
"...through all the layers of large and little violences emerges a speaker who believes in love, a voice that yearns for the mysterious otherwhere: ‘I am too dying/ of what I don’t know.’ I was stunned by this magnificent debut—here is the voice of a poet I will be reading again and again." — Aria Aber, author of *Good Girl*
"Bates, with this debut, continues an aesthetic conversation populated by the work of such luminaries as Sylvia Plath (Ariel), Louise Glück (Wild Iris), and Mary Szybist (Incarnadine): American women poets writing towards an autonomy, a personal and artistic and sexual freedom long constrained by, among other patriarchal forces, the taboo of sentimentalism unevenly and unfairly scrutinized in the poetry of women." --D.S. Waldman
Bios:
Gabrielle Bates’s work has appeared in the New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and Ploughshares. Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, she currently lives in Seattle, Washington, where she cohosts the podcast The Poet Salon, works for Open Books: A Poem Emporium, and teaches occasionally through the University of Washington. www.gabriellebat.es
Emma Gomis is a Catalan American essayist, poet, academic, and translator. She has been published in Asymptote, The Brooklyn Rail, Entropy, Vice Magazine, Mother Jones, and La Opinión. She is the cofounder of Manifold Press, which publishes texts in experimental criticism. She holds a B.A. in Musicology and Hispanic Studies, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Poetics from Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, where she was also the Anne Waldman Fellowship recipient. She published *Recupera*, a book of interwoven essays and autofiction, with the 87press in 2025, and co-published *A Punch in the Gut of a Star/Un Cop de Puny al Ventre de'una Estrella* (Pamenar Press) in 2022 with Anne Waldman.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)