GRAVY #4: Gravy Boat

Through live events and an indie zine, GRAVY (gravypoetry.com) brings the UK’s leading poets to unique venues around London.

£9 Concession tickets available with the code GRAVY9

GRAVY #4: GRAVY BOAT features experimental, lyrical, boat-rocking writing inspired by London, rivers and sea travel by poets Fran Lock, Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Abigail Parry, Hannah Silva and TS Eliot Prize-winner Joelle Taylor, as well as an original sound-art performance by Reid Dudley Peirson.

A free copy of issue #4 of GRAVY is included with every ticket.

THE PERFORMERS

Fran Lock is a some-time itinerant dog whisperer, the author of numerous chapbooks and thirteen poetry collections, including Hyena! (Poetry Bus Press, 2023), shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023.

Oluwaseun Olayiwola is a poet, critic and choreographer living in London. His poems have been published in the Guardian, the Poetry Review, Oxford Poetry and elsewhere. His debut collection Strange Beach is forthcoming from Granta Books and Soft Skull Press.

Abigail Parry spent several years as a toymaker before completing a PhD on wordplay. Her second collection, I Think We’re Alone Now (Bloodaxe Books, 2023), was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize.

Hannah Silva is an award-winning writer and performer with an international career spanning two decades. ‘Talk in a bit’, Silva's record of sound poetry and music (Humankind Records) was in the Wire’s Top 25 Albums of 2018. Silva's radio play ‘AnArtificiallyIntelligentGuidetoLove’ (BBC Radio 4) starred Fiona Shaw and was the starting point for My Child, the Algorithm (Footnote Press), a memoir on queer single parenting and love written in conversation with a GPT algorithm and a toddler.

Reid Dudley Peirson is a sound worker and artist who lives in Folkestone. Reid plays in a punk band called Negative Space.

Joelle Taylor is the author of four collections of poetry. Her most recent collection C+NTO & Othered Poems won the 2021 T.S Eliot Prize and the 2022 Polari Book Prize for LGBT authors. Her novel of interconnecting stories The Night Alphabet is published by Riverrun in February.