Join us to celebrate the launch of Leaning Against Time: Selected Poems by SuAndi, published by Carcanet Press, to hear SuAndi read from and discuss the book with Dave Moutrey.

In person at Aviva Studios or livestreamed on Zoom.

Leaning Against Time is the first substantial publication by SuAndi that brings together her work – as performer, writer for stage and arts curator. She has recently been celebrated by the award of the Benson Medal by the Royal Society of Literature, of which she is an honorary fellow, for services to literature across her career, which recognised her poems’ fierce, vividly powerful and dramatic depictions of women’s lives – in Manchester, the city she grew up in – and of Black communities and the lives of those whose voices are not often heard, even now, in contemporary British literature.

In this selection, the rhythms of speech and performance echo off the page. Though she is as at home with the dramatic monologue as the lyric and the ballad, SuAndi’s poems defy easy categorisation and make visible on the page a remarkable trailblazing writing career.

Refreshments will be provided and copies of the book will be available to purchase.