CLUB ROOM: Poetry Night with Cecilia Knapp
N/A 120 mins
N/A 120 mins
Introducing the first event Poetry Night at the Finsbury Park Picturehouse! We are incredibly grateful and beyond excited to be hosting the one and only Cecilia Knapp in the space. Poet, novelist and the Young People’s Laureate for London 2020/2021. She was shortlisted for the 2022 Forward prize for best single poem.
She is the winner of the 2021 Ruth Rendell award and has been shortlisted for both the Rebecca Swift Women’s prize and the Outspoken poetry prize. Her debut poetry collection Peach Pig was published by Corsair in 2022 and was the Observer’s poetry book of the month for October.
Her poems have appeared in The Financial Times, Granta, The White Review, Wasafiri, Popshot, Ambit, Magma and bath magg and anthologised. She curated the anthology Everything is Going to be alright: Poems for When you Really Need Them, published by Trapeze in 2021. Her debut novel Little Boxes is published by The Borough Press. In 2023, Little Boxes was longlisted for The Authors Club Best First Novel Award.
Her second novel Lackrelease a couple of days before this poetry night! Joining Cecilia we have live looping sax, spoken word legend – Softshadow and Brighton’s own hiphop, poet and gig promoter boss, Jed. The night will be opened by an open mic! Please get in contact at [email protected] if you’d like to read. The venue has a fully stocked kitchen and cocktail bar so come down and enjoy a drink and a pizza to a night of lovely words.