Join us for an afternoon of poetry from award-winning writers Annelise Berghenti, Lily Blacksell and Rosamund Taylor. Themes will range from womanhood to the natural world; the everyday to the extraordinary, in a mixture of new work and recently published poems from Lily Blacksell’s collection Life Immediately (Bloodaxe, 2026), and Rosamund Taylor’s verse novel Filly (Banshee Press, 2025). Jessica Traynor, fellow Bloodaxe poet and Poetry Editor at Banshee , will introduce the event.
Attendance is free but booking is essential.
ABOUT THE POETS
ROSAMUND TAYLOR is the winner of the Rialto Poetry Prize 2025, the Telegraph Poetry Prize 2023, The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2020 and the Mairtín Crawford Award for Poetry 2017. In 2023, her debut collection, In Her Jaws (Banshee Press 2022), was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize for a First Collection and the Yeats Society Poetry Prize, and longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize. Her essays have recently appeared in The Irish Times and The Stinging Fly , and her poems have featured in Butcher’s Dog, Magma, Mslexia, Poetry Ireland Review and on BBC Radio 4 and RTE Radio 1. Filly , her novel in verse, was published by Banshee last year.
LILY BLACKSELL is a poet living in London. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Review, BOMB Magazine, Bath Magg, Poetry London, Poetry Wales and elsewhere. She runs a poetry and music night called Canon Fodder. Her two pamphlets are There’s No Such Thing (ignition press) and Stressed, Tested (Rough Trade Books). Her first full-length collection, Life Immediately , is published by Bloodaxe Books.
ANNELISE BERGHENTI is a poet living in Dublin, where she grew up. She has an MFA in poetry from Columbia University and her poems have been published by Banshee , Headstuff , Rainbow Agate , and other publications.