Significant Others by frank r jagoe.
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Featuring readings and conversation from an innovative set of new books and brilliant authors, New Canons is a celebration of a boundary-pushing, and stylistically diverse new wave.
Featuring readings from:
Jen Calleja
Jess Cole
Remi Graves
Will Harris
Juliet Jacques
frank r jagoe
Francesca Reece
Oisín Roberts
Rajasree Variyar
Nadia de Vries
Including work from:
22 Fictions: New Writing from Desperate Literature & Brick Lane Bookshop
Prototype
The Relegation Reader: An Anthology
Tenement Press
Monitor Books
Toothgrinder Press
Worms Magazine
The Burley Fisher Community Press
Hosted by Robert Loyko-Greer & Kate Ellis.
Featuring readings from:
Jen Calleja
Jess Cole
Remi Graves
Will Harris
Juliet Jacques
frank r jagoe
Francesca Reece
Oisín Roberts
Rajasree Variyar
Nadia de Vries
Including work from:
22 Fictions: New Writing from Desperate Literature & Brick Lane Bookshop
Prototype
The Relegation Reader: An Anthology
Tenement Press
Monitor Books
Toothgrinder Press
Worms Magazine
The Burley Fisher Community Press
Hosted by Robert Loyko-Greer & Kate Ellis.
Bios
Jen Calleja, reading from Vehicle (Prototype) is a poet, writer and essayist who has been widely published, including in The White Review, The London Magazine, and Best British Short Stories (Salt). She was awarded an Authors’ Foundation Grant from the Society of Authors to work on debut novel Vehicle (Prototype, 2023), which was shortlisted for the Short Fiction/University of Essex Prize. Jen’s short story collection I’m Afraid That’s All We’ve Got Time For was published by Prototype in 2020, and Goblinhood: Goblin as a Mode published by Rough Trade Books in 2024, and Fair: The Life-Art of Translation, an experimental translator-memoir, was published by Prototype in 2025, an excerpt from which was previously Longlisted for the Ivan Juritz Prize for Experimentation in Text. Jen has been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize and the Schlegel-Tieck Prize as a literary translator from German into English and was the inaugural Translator in Residence at the British Library. Jen is co-founding editor of Praspar Press and played and toured in the DIY punk band Sauna Youth.
Jess Cole (she/her), reading from Retail Therapy (Worms Publishing) is a writer based in South London. She has written for Vogue, The New York Times, The Guardian, and is a regular contributor to MARFA. Her creative practice spans dramaturgy, performance pieces, and prose. Cole finds wit—especially when it’s quick and sharp—deeply sexy, a sentiment that pulses through her writing.
Remi Graves, reading from coal (Monitor Books) is a poet and drummer from London. A former Barbican Young Poet, their work has been featured on BBC Radio 4, at St Paul’s Cathedral and in various anthologies. Their debut pamphlet, with your chest, was published by fourteen poems in 2022. coal, which won the inaugural Prototype Prize (short form category) in 2024, was published by Monitor in 2025.
Juliet Jacques, reading from Monaco (Toothgrinder Press) is a writer and filmmaker based in London. She has published six books, including Trans: A Memoir (Verso – 2015), Variations (Influx – 2021) and Monaco (Toothgrinder – 2023), and made three short films. She teaches at the Royal College of Art and elsewhere.
frank r jagoe, reading from Significant Others (Prototype) work is a reclamation of madness and monstrosity in opposition to the exclusionary category of the human. Often it explores communication with other-than-humans: in recognition that we are in community with each other; in acknowledgement of the personhood of other-than-human beings; and in order to displace a western hierarchy that claims humanity as the highest form of existence. They are particularly drawn to considering how madness and monstrosity are defined in relation to language usage, and in opposition to rationality, coherence, and ‘reason’. Highlighting forms of communication beyond words, beyond class-based language, beyond human forms of speech, feels an urgent imperative. Throughout they want to consider whose language is respected, whose language is engaged with, and believed, or even acknowledged. Influenced by medieval lapidary texts, jagoe’s most recent focus has been finding kinship with rocks, and trying to think through how we can communicate across vastly different experiences of time.
Will Harris, reading from The Relegation Reader (Relegation Books) is the author of the poetry books RENDANG (2020) and Brother Poem (2023). Siblings (a conversation with Jay Bernard, Mary Jean Chan, and Nisha Rammaya) was published by Monitor Books in 2024. He is currently writing a book about the care sector for Fitzcarraldo Editions.
Oisín Roberts, reading from Close to God (Burley Fisher Community Press) is a writer from Derry, Ireland, living in London, England. Above his desk there’s a printed out screenshot that says “Even your favourite label will ultimately limit you, resist the urge”, and that’s where he writes from. Read the writing in his pamphlet Close to God, recently published with Burley Fisher Community Press.
Francesca Reece, reading from 22 Fictions: New Writing from Desperate Literature and Brick Lane Bookshop (CHEERIO Publishing) is a writer from North Wales and the author of Voyeur and Glass Houses. Her forthcoming novel, Sleaze, will be published in 2027. She has been shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year Award and was the 2019 recipient of the Desperate Literature Prize for short fiction. Her work has featured in The London Magazine, Banshee, Literary Review, Elle UK, and on BBC Short Works. After several years living in Paris, she is now based in London.
Rajasree Variya, reading from 22 Fictions: New Writing from Desperate Literature and Brick Lane Bookshop (CHEERIO Publishing) grew up in Australia and now lives in London, where she juggles writing alongside a career in insurance product development. She received her MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. Her manuscript of The Daughters of Madurai (then called The Wanted Girl) was shortlisted for the 2019 Mo Siewcharran Hachette Prize. Her short stories have won second prize in the Shooter Literary Magazine short story competition and been longlisted for the Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize. The Daughters of Madurai is her debut novel and was published by Orion in the UK in April 2023 and in the US by Union Square in February 2023. It was a Barnes and Noble Book Club pick, a Lilly’s Library book club choice, and won the Times of India AutHer Award for best debut novel in 2024. She is currently working on her second novel.
Nadia de Vries, reading from All My Dead Jesters (Tenement Press) is a poet from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her previous collections include Know Thy Audience (MOIST, 2023), I Failed to Swoon (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2021) and Dark Hour (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2018). She also writes fiction in Dutch. Her novels De bakvis (Uitgeverij Pluim, 2022) and Overgave op commando (2025) were translated to English by Sarah Timmer Harvey as, respectively, Thistle (The New Menard Press, 2024) and Surrender on Demand (Bloomsbury, forthcoming).
Book tickets
07:00 pm
Wed, 11 Mar 2026
Cinema 1
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Monaco by Juliet Jacques.
Coal by Remi Graves.
All my Dead Jesters By Nadia de Vries.
no. 236848.