Readings for the 30 year anniversary of Gillian Rose's death, with Aurelia Guo, Danny Hayward, Caspar Heinemann, Mira Mattar, and Basyma Saad.
Poster by Gonçalo Lamas
Doors 7pm [7.30pm start]
Tickets £3 - £5 - £8
Keep your mind in hell, and despair not
Readings for the 30 year anniversary of Gillian Rose’s death
with Aurelia Guo, Danny Hayward, Caspar Heinemann, Mira Mattar, and Basyma Saad
All ticket proceeds will go towards readers and raising funds for the Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund, and there will be ways to donate on the night. https://gascf.org/
Organised by Rosie Woodhouse & Sam Dolbear
Aurelia Guo is a writer and researcher based in London. She is the author of World of Interiors (Divided, 2022). She is a Lecturer in Law at Goldsmiths, University of London and a Visiting Fellow at LHub, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.
Basyma Saad is a writer and artist born in Beirut. Her writing has been published in n+1, The New Inquiry, Protean, Jadaliyya, The Funambulist, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a poetry collection titled Loss Surplus.
Mira Mattar writes fiction, poetry and essays. She is the author of Yes, I Am A Destroyer, Affiliation, The Bow and And most of all I would miss the shadows of the tree’s own leaves cast upon its trunk by the orange streetlight in the sweet blue darks of spring. Mira lives and works in London.
DH avoids the verb 'is'. Website archive of poems: www.pxxtry.com. Latest output to float to the surface: Woke City Breaks (Gong Farm, 2025).
Caspar Heinemann (b. 1994, London) is an artist and writer living in Glasgow. Solo exhibitions have included Studio Voltaire, London (2025); Édouard Montassut, Paris (2024); Cabinet, London (2022); Outpost Gallery, Norwich; Almanac, London (2017); and Kevin Space, Vienna (2016). His work has been included in group exhibitions at Casa di Goethe, Rome (2024); Maureen Paley: Morena di Luna, Hove (2024) EACC, Castellón (2023); ICA, Los Angeles (2022); ICA, London (2019); and Cabinet, London (2019). Heinemann participated in the 2019 Bergen Assembly, and has held readings of his writing at Spike Island, Bristol; Camden Arts Centre, London; Partly, Copenhagen; Sussex Poetry Festival, Brighton; and Tate Modern, London. His first poetry collection, Novelty Theory, was published in 2019 by The 87 Press.