STST Word Club | The Fair Organ

We are delighted to welcome The Fair Organ to STST Word Club this November to read and exhibit works in progress from their current project ‘The Merry Golden Tree’. They will be joined by the poets Imogen Cassels, Dom Hale (with Tom Crompton, in absentia) and Leonie Rushforth.

‘The people took sails in their aprons

chips for their ovens

milk meetings

grease suits

blast back cuttings with hoses

and when you look them in the eyes

you see grey eyes

asking will I be fulfilled.’

From The English, a draft poem by Edwina Attlee

The Fair Organ | @thefairorgan

The Fair Organ is a publishing collective currently comprising Matilda Agace, Edwina Attlee, Grace Connolly Linden, Rey Conquer, Aisha Farr, Hugh Foley, Angela Shackel, John Stephens and George Townsend.

‘The Merry Golden Tree’ is the third in a series exploring the emotional, political and social landscapes of particular folk songs through text, performance and visual art. Our work on the song looks at sabotage, low technology, solidarity, Englishness and unending catastrophe.

We’re excited to share this new work with the Word Club audience. We’ll be looking for feedback and participation from you!

About the readers:

Imogen Cassels is a poet and critic. Her debut collection, Silk Work, came out in 2025, followed by a pamphlet, Peach machine; her second collection, Hares on the mountain, was published in the summer. She’s a visiting tutor in English at UCL.

Dom Hale is the author of several books of poetry, including most recently First Nettles (2025), Faint Portal (2023), and On Tiptoe: Poems by Pierre Reverdy (2026). With Tom Crompton, he also wrote the collaborative texts Mud Ramps (2025) and Earthstepper (2026). Dom helps to organise a hardship fund for poets in the UK and co-edits the magazine Ludd Gang, all at poetshardshipfunduk.com.

Leonie Rushforth lives in Hackney. Her poetry collection Deltas was published by Prototype in 2022 and was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Prize that year.

Matilda Agace is an artist and printmaker based in Greenwich.

Edwina Attlee is a poet and a cultural historian. She teaches history to students of architecture at UCL and London Met. She is the author of Strayed Homes: Cultural Histories of the Domestic in Public (Bloomsbury, 2021) and a great shaking (Tenement, 2024).

Grace Connolly Linden is a poet and teacher. Her pamphlet ‘ave’ was published in October this year. Her creative and critical work can be found in Prototype 5, the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry. She convenes the publishing collective ‘the Fair Organ’.

Rey Conquer’s debut novel, How to Live Together, is coming out with Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2027. They are part of the Fair Organ, for which they co-edited the pamphlets Wind the Bobbin Up and Recent Poems by Hugh Foley among others.

Aisha Farr is an artist and writer who makes paintings, weavings, and poems that interrelate. Some of her miniature paintings, and ongoing details of her project on the presence of the Parsi in the British archive, can be seen on aishafarr.com.

Hugh Foley is the author of Recent Poems (published by The Fair Organ).

Thursday 29 October | 7-10pm

Tickets:

Low income: £4
General Admission: £8
Pay-It-Forward: £12

If you would like to attend but the cost is prohibitive, please get contact info@staffordshirest.com. If you are financially able, please consider choosing a pay-it-forward ticket. This helps keep events accessible to all.

Accessibility: There is step-free access to the gallery via the door to the left hand side of the main entrance. There is a wheelchair accessible toilet. The event will be taking place in the exhibition space, which is a large open room with bright lighting and some seating available.

Our Accessibility Pack is available here.

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