Please join us to celebrate the launch of Eccolo: Poems by Hal Coase. The reading will be hosted by poet Lavinia Singer. The event will feature readings and discussion, and audience members will have the opportunity to ask their own questions. We will show the text during readings so that you can read along.

Registration for this online event will cost £2, redeemable against the cost of the book. You will receive the discount code and instructions for how to purchase the book in your confirmation email as well as during and after the event.

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‘If difference,
then resistance.’

Hal Coase has a gift for catching the rhythms of speech and exchange, and an eye for a telling image. His book’s Italian title, Eccolo, meaning ‘Here he is’, or ‘Here it is’, captures his work’s immediacy, and the poems’ revelatory quality.

These are poems and sequences which relish the ways in which we (try to) communicate and know one another, emulating the techniques and effect of some of the mid-century New York School and Roman poets he admires. Coase’s writing – as playwright, translator, critic and poet – aspires to be both beautiful and conscientious. Eccolo: Poems is an auspicious debut.

About the speakers:

Hal Coase was born in Surrey and grew up in the Black Country. His poetry has been published by Carcanet in New Poetries VII (2020) and Prototype in Prototype 5 (2023). In 2018, he was shortlisted for the White Review Poet’s Prize. In 2024, he received the Harper-Wood Studentship from St John’s College, Cambridge. He lives in Rome.

Lavinia Singer is the author of Artifice (Prototype, 2023) and Ornaments: a handbook (If a Leaf Falls/Glyph Press, 2020). She is an editor of poetry at Faber.