Jayant Kashyap & Cia Mangat: Online pamphlet launch
Join us for an amazing evening of poetry with the two winners of our 2024 New Poets Prize, whose pamphlets are out from the Poetry Business in May. Hosted by Poetry Business co-directors Ann and Peter Sansom, and prize judge Holly Hopkins.
Register for this launch reading to receive free P+P on these pamphlets.
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Notes on Burials by Jayant Kashyap
An archaeological dig, a visit to an imagined London, puppies that come back from the dead. In Notes on Burials Jayant Kashyap makes a series of journeys: real, mythological and etymological as he navigates what is lost and what is buried. Kashyap’s poems of love and remembrance reach out to collective losses, human and environmental, in a series of disappearing acts and excavations that take us from broken childhood patio to a snowboarder in an avalanche.
Jayant Kashyap is an Indian poet and author of two previous pamphlets, Unaccomplished Cities (Ghost City Press, 2020) and Survival (Clare Songbirds, 2019), and a zine, Water (Skear Zines, 2021). Kashyap won the Young Poets Competition at the Wells Festival of Literature in 2021, and was awarded a Toto Award for Creative Writing in 2025. Kashyap’s poems have featured in POETRY, Denver Quarterly, Poetry London, Magma, Arc Poetry Magazine, Poetry Northwest, Plumwood Mountain, and Poetry Wales, been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and twice for the Best of the Net anthology. Kashyap presented at COP26, the United Nations Climate Conference 2021.
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Lobe by Cia Mangat
A gold bangle, a barber’s shop and Diana Princess of Wales in an Indian wedding video. In Lobe, Cia Mangat navigates what we inherit and what we leave behind in a book which plays with private and public mythologies. These poems create a world of love and surveillance, where Diana’s revenge dress prepares for the paparazzi and aunties gossip in the threading parlor. Bodies are pierced and cut from magazines while the wedding halls beckon. Lobe is a book of resistance and reimagining, where Di escapes her buttercream wedding, a woman shaves her head and ‘george michael will sing every song you have ever wanted to you /directly accompanied by hundreds of thousands of people you love’.
Cia Mangat is a poet from London. Her work has been published in fourteen poems, gal-dem, Propel, and bath magg, and has been broadcast by the BBC. She founded and edited Zindabad, a zine for people in diasporas worldwide, and facilitates writing and zine-making workshops.
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Accessibility:
This event will use live auto-captioning. As the event is live-streamed, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of these captions. Correct closed-captions will be added to the Youtube video once the livestream is saved and re-uploaded. We will also provide a link to a Google document with poem text.
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