20th February 2025
6:00 - 8:00 PM
The Braag’s Poetry Book Launch

Kym Deyn’s independent press, The Braag, is holding a launch party for its 2024-25 poetry slate. They’ll launch two pamphlets with readings by the authors.
‘every house needs a ghost’ by Timothy Fox
Made from the viscera of a working class upbringing in the American Deep South, every house needs a ghost is both haunting and haunted. It includes the voices and stories of faith healers, queer teenagers, orphaned children, meth heads, single mothers and dead grandparents. Unsettling, gothic, and clear-eyed, it makes for a powerful and exciting debut.
‘Offworld’ by Kirsten Luckins
Inspired by processes of mistranslation and ekphrasis, Kirsten Luckins takes us through an experimental sci-fi high-flyer where octopi seek out strip clubs and anything can be bought at a spaceport. Beautiful, shocking, funny and prescient these poems defy easy explanation, and present us with glimpses of ruined and defiant futures.
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