[Reading] The Anonymous Poet Society with neneh noï, Roya Zahra Shadmand and Kate Paul

You’re invited to join us for a meeting of The Anonymous Poet Society hosted by Kate Paul, nene noï and Roya Zahra Shadmand. An evening of anonymous readings invested in providing a space for textual and vocal play without authorship. Throughout the evening together we read aloud each other’s anonymised poetry, or other forms of writing, until all is read. The meeting will start 16h00 sharp.

To participate:
Writings should be 1-2 A4 pages in length. If you have a longer text, choose an excerpt or the reader may only read some of it. You can bring more than one piece but only put one on the pile at first. We can add more if numbers allow.

No names on your poems/writings - utmost secrecy must be maintained.

Make sure you bring a print out or other kind of paper copy of your writing so that it can be passed round, exchanged, held by someone else, untraceable to you.

You can join even if you haven’t written anything. Whether you have brought writings or not, this information should be kept secret to respect the code of anonymity. 

All languages are welcome.

About the contributors
neneh noï’s  practice revolves around language; facilitating spaces where writing and performance activate each other; translation, transcription, facilitating, pedagogy, archiving. Currently they are in the process of publishing a children’s book on pre-adolescent non/human intimacies with l’Amazone Editions, archiving their gran’s and their own poetry, and developing a sabotage school within schools. They facilitate screaming sessions called rage is not a luxury.

Kate Paul (1992, Manchester) is an artist and writer based in Glasgow. Her work with text, audio, facilitation, and performance has been exhibited/published with NoBounds Radio,  Fieldnotes, Presse Books, NTS Radio, Hot Potato Magazine, Phytology, Ruskin School of Art, South London Gallery, the ICA, and Conditions. In 2023 she was a recipient of a Shady Dealings with Language grant. She has an upcoming solo exhibition at Listen Gallery in Glasgow.

Roya Zahra Shadmand is a poet and performance artist from the UK, based in the EU since 2016. She has studied clowning under Philippe Gaulier and is a former resident artist at The Roundhouse in Camden. She has performed at various events and festivals around the UK and Europe, including but not limited to Latitude Festival, Bestival and the Edinburgh Fringe. Her first poetry pamphlet, ‘A Forest of Red’ was published in December 2023 with Kitchen 3 Editions. Her work is concerned with structural inequalities, generational patterns of power and protection, alternative forms of education and organising community, the history of opiate use in the middle east, the healing arts, and practices of harm reduction as they pertain to drugs and drug users.