Thanks to our wonderful readers - Francis de Lima, maddy Pope, Caiti Luckhurst, and David Spittle, alongside everybody who joined us in the audience!

Caroline Harris is a writer, editor, founder of Small Birds Press and an Honorary Research Associate at Royal Holloway. Publications include ‘SCRUB Management Handbook No. 1, Mere’ and ‘A Summoning Spell for Lost Deer’ and essays for The Poetry Review and The Blue Notebook

May Dearlove is a writer, performer and Poetic Practice PhD researcher at Royal Holloway, exploring a poetics of cuts, tears and openings in book-works. May has been awarded the LAMDA Lillian Cooper Prize, a Paul Hamlyn Bursary, & nominated for The Forward Prize best single poem

Cat Chong is a poet, publisher, and essayist. They’re the author of Plain Air: An Apology in Transit, 712 stanza homes for the sun, and Dear Lettera 32 among others. They are digital editor at Osmosis Press, and an editor at Pamenar Press

This takeover will celebrate the launch of Cute Swarm by Caroline Harris! Plus readings by Cat Chong, including from Deer/Dear: a collaboration, and a performance by May Dearlove of Singing Bird Box, for which a new collaborative edition is planned with the press!

Contributions from Caroline Harris, May Dearlove, and Cat Chong 🧡 www.smallbirdspress.co.uk