Please join us to celebrate the launch of Answerlands by Joseph Minden.

The reading will be hosted by Will Harris. 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 the online Answerlands launch 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.

Answerlands is the place children go in their minds when looking for a correct answer without really thinking. It is also a fairy-tale world of quest, resolution and dissolution, glimpsed in a teacher’s dream. And it is nightmare country, disfigured by fear and systemic violence.

Joe Minden’s second collection, Answerlands, explores the curiosity-destroying, harmful potential of school even as it celebrates the erring minds of teacher and student, which make encounter possible.

About the speakers:

Joseph Minden is a poet and schoolteacher. His first collection, Poppy (Carcanet, 2022), was a poetry Book of the Year in The Daily Telegraph and History Today, recommended by the LRB Bookshop, and highly commended in The Forward Prizes.

Will Harris is a London-based writer. His debut poetry book, Rendang (Wesleyan University Press, 2020), was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. His second book of poems, Brother Poem (Wesleyan University Press), was published in 2023.