@touching_bass and myself have collaborated to present an evening of poetry, titled “Pushing Back the Dark” after Quincy Troupe’s poem of the same name. This will be my first time reading my written work 😧 and it’s a pleasure to share with poets I have deep admiration for. The reading will take place at Ronan Mckenzie’s HOME gallery space (@home_by_ronanmckenzie ) on October 12th - ticket link in bio Will have copies of the ‘Onwards!’ booklet for sale at the show Doors at 6pm. Lineup —— KHARI LUCAS: is a composer and writer/songwriter whose practice reaches into several disciplines, including radio, film and journalism. His work explores such themes as self-exploration, self determination, love and its iterations, isolation and black cultural context. ASMAA JAMA: @asmaa_floats is a Somali artist, poet and filmmaker based in England. Asmaa has been commended for the Brunel African Poetry Prize, shortlisted for the Wasafiri Writing Prize, the New Poets Prize and James Berry Poetry Prize and longlisted in the National Poetry Competition. Asmaa’s a Cave Canem 2021 Fellow (@cavecanempoets). Asmaa has been published in places like Poetry Review, The Good Journal, Ambit, Ballast and Magma. They are a resident artist at @SomersetHouseStudios. BROTHER PORTRAIT: @brother_portrait is a writer and artist - his words falling into form in poetry, prose, travel writing and music. He is a believer in the importance of cultural production, expression and archiving. Of writing to find and see oneself. S*AN D. HENRY-SMITH: @lil_sunchoke is a collaborative practitioner working primarily in poetry and photography, and by extension, performance and publishing. They are the author of Body Text, Flotsam Suite: a strange and precarious life, or how we chronicled the little disasters & I won’t leave the dance floor til it’s out of my system, Wild Peach, the co-author (alongside Imani Elizabeth Jackson) of Consider the Tongue, and the director of Lunar New Year.