Sarah Salway is one of my favourite writers. I love her novels. I love her poetry. I love her quirky photographic obsessions and idiosyncratic view of the world.

Kiran Millwood Hargrave is less known to me, but still someone who’s work I am eager to know better.

Two wonderful poets, two new collections:
Sarah Salway’s, You Do Not Need Another Self-Help Book

Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s, Last March

Both are being launched tonight (March 8) at 7 pm at The Phoenix Artist Club on Charing Cross Road in London.

This is a launch that I put into my diary the minute I heard about it, but then a few weeks ago I received an email from Jo Hemmant of Pindrop Press asking me to be a guest reader at the launch, along with Catherine Smith. What incredible generosity! So tonight I’ll be reading from Her Life Collected as part of a quartet of poets. I know it will be a very special evening and I’m incredibly chuffed to have been asked to be a part of it.