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Readings by:

 

KYM MARTINDALE
EMMA BOLLAND
ADAM PIETTE
HARRIET TARLO
GERALDINE MONK
TERRY O’CONNOR
ÁGNES LEHÓCZKY

 

with a book launch and a conversation with Creative Writing students
featuring: Aisling Crook, Rufus Hall and Eloise Harrison & A CHRISTMAS BOOK FAIR

 

All warmly welcome: students, staff, alumni, Sheffield peeps and from beyond...

 

Kym Martindale taught English and Creative Writing at Falmouth University, Cornwall until 2019. Her academic work on the writers Monique Wittig, Frances Bellerby, Alice Oswald and Edward Thomas appears in journals and books such as Process, Landscape and Text, eds Adeline Johns-Putra and Catherine Brace, Rodopi (2010), and Identity and Form in Contemporary Literature, ed. Ana Maria Sanchez, Routledge (2013). In 2019, she returned happily to her native Yorkshire, and has since collaborated with Harriet Tarlo on Spillways (2022) and been published variously over the years in The Clearing, and other online journals.

 

Emma Bolland is an artist and writer whose methods include literatures, translation, screenwriting, performance, drawing, sculpture, installation, and moving image. Their creative monographs include Over, In, and Under (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2019) and Instructions from Light (JOAN, 2023). Recent creative and critical contributions include ‘Speaking Silence’ in Gestures: a body of work (Manchester University Press, 2025), ‘Streaming Dreaming’ in A Year of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros (Terra Nova / MIT Press) and their text ‘Am / Thought / Always’ was included in Best British Short Stories 2021 (Salt Publishing). Their translation of Louis Delluc’s 1920 screenplay Le Silence is the first to be published in English. With Rachel Smith, they are co-editor of intergraphia, a small press who have published pamphlets by Anthony Vahni Capildeo, Sascha A. Akhtar, Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese, Derek Beaulieu and more. They have exhibited and performed internationally and have work in public and private collections. Recent visual and performance works have been exhibited as part of Testing Ground, a solo two-month residency at Yorkshire ArtSpace (2025), Necrology at Haarlem Artspace (2025), Checked Out at Hypha Studios, The Bonecrushers Dream at Council Gallery (2025) and Another Way of Seeing at Leeds Art Gallery (2025). Their 2025 solo project The Public Dream at The Art House UK drew inspiration from The Art House’s historic building history as a library – a place of both illumination and imagination – using the main gallery as a live studio they developed a large-scale wall-drawing, a sculpture and light installation, and an experimental text exploring dreams, sci-fi, and speculative futures. The project was described as ‘a poetic, speculative environment that blurs the line between archive, dream, and imagination’.

 

Adam Piette is Professor of Modern Literature at Sheffield. He is the co-editor of the international contemporary poetry journal Blackbox Manifold with Alex Houen. He is author of Remembering and the Sound of Words: Mallarmé, Proust, Joyce, Beckett, Imagination at War: British Fiction and Poetry, 1939-1945, and The Literary Cold War, 1945 to Vietnam. He edited the special issue of Translation and Literature on “Modernism and Translation”, The Salt Companion to Peter Robinson with Katy Price (2007) and The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature with Mark Rawlinson (2012). He is the co-editor of the international contemporary poetry journal Blackbox Manifold with Alex Houen. He has had poems published in Stand, Adjacent Pineapple and elsewhere, the broadside pamphlet nights as dreaming (Constitutional Information / earthbound press), CCCLXV with Crater Press (October 2025), and Lies Blurring Here with Broken Sleep (forthcoming April 2026). Also forthcoming in 2026 will be a co-translation of the work of Attila József with Ágnes Lehóczky, with Shearsman in 2026, and an edition of the work of Australian poet Catherine Vidler's work, co-edited with Amelia Dale and A.J. Carruthers, with Puncher & Wattman.

 

Ágnes Lehóczky’s poetry collections published in the UK are Budapest to Babel (Egg Box, 2008), Rememberer (Egg Box, 2012), Carillonneur (Shearsman, 2014), Swimming Pool (Shearsman, 2017), Lathe Biosas, or on Dreams & Lies (Crater Press, 2023) and Apropos Paradise Square (Pamenar Press, 2025). She also has three full poetry collections in Hungarian published in Budapest: Ikszedik stáció (Universitas, 2000), Medalion (Universitas, 2002) and Palimpszeszt (Magyar Napló, 2015). She is the author of the academic monograph Poetry, the Geometry of Living Substance – comprising four essays on the poetry of Ágnes Nemes Nagy (2011). Her pamphlet Pool Epitaphs and Other Love Letters was published by Boiler House Press (2017). She co-edited major international anthologies: the Sheffield Anthology (Smith/Doorstop, 2012) with Adam Piette, The World Speaking Back to Denise Riley (Boiler House, 2018) with Zoë Skoulding, Wretched Strangers (Boiler House, 2018) with J. T. Welsch and most recently the ‘Monk Collective’ with Adam Piette (Blackbox Manifold, 2023). Fission of Being – Endnotes on Earthbound was commissioned by The Roberts Institute of Art, London in 2021. She is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and Director of the Centre for Poetry and Poetics at the University of Sheffield. With Adam Piette she’s currently working on translations of Attila József (forthincoming by Shearsman in 2026) and István Vörös (forthcoming in 2026).

 

Harriet Tarlo’s poetry is published with Shearsman Press, Etruscan books and Guillemot Press. She collaborated for over ten years with the artist Judith Tucker, exhibiting widely here and abroad and publishing five artists’ books with Wild Pansy Press. Her most recent publications are Cut Flowers 1 & 2 (2021/2024); with Judith Tucker, Saltwort (2022) and with Kym Martindale, Spillways (2022). She edited the influential anthology The Ground Aslant: An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry (Shearsman, 2011). She is a Professor of Ecopoetry and Poetics at Sheffield Hallam University.

 

Geraldine Monk’s poetry was first published in the 1970’s with many collections to her name including her widely acclaimed Interregnum, Creation Books and Escafeld Hangings West House Books. Her most recent collection of poems They Who Saw the Deep was published in the USA by Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press. She is a founding member of the Sheffield antichoir Juxtavoices for which she wrote many pieces in collaboration with her late husband, the poet Alan Halsey and the musician Martin Archer. In 2019 she was commissioned to write the libretto Paradise Square for the Soft Rebellion film by Chloe Brown. She is an affiliated poet to The Centre for Poetry and Poetics, University of Sheffield.

 

Terry O’Connor is a core member and performer with Forced Entertainment, “Britain’s most brilliant experimental theatre company” (The Guardian), award-winners of the 2016 International Ibsen Prize for their original contribution to theatre. Her work as an artist and performer is also replayed through a long history of engagement as a lecturer, mentor and collaborator, recently focused on extending experimental practice in her work with young people on Forced Entertainment’s participation projects. In 2011, she became Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance Practice at the University of Sheffield. Her current doctoral research at the University of Salford (2019-25) investigates the functions and philosophies of improvised text within the postdramatic and the possibilities of the form in applied theatre contexts, working with young people and non-professional groups.