Past Event
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– Information about access on site at the gallery is available here https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/visit/access/
– This includes information about Lift access; Borrowing wheelchairs & seating; Assistance Animals; Parking; Toilets and baby care facilities; Blind & Partially Sighted Visitors; Subtitles and transcripts; British Sign Language (BSL) and hearing induction loops; Deaf Messaging Service (DMS).
About This Event
– This event takes place in Gallery 2 at Whitechapel Gallery, which is on the ground floor.
– You must purchase a ticket to attend the event. Concession tickets are available. If you require a Personal Assistant to support your attendance, we can offer them a seat free of charge, but it must be arranged in advance.
– If the ticket price affects your attendance, please email tickets@whitechapelgallery.org to be added to the guest list (no questions asked, but dependent on availability).
– This event is suitable for those over the age of 16
– We are unable to provide British Sign Language interpretation for this event
– We are unable to provide live closed captioning or CART for this event.
– This event last approximately 1.5 hours. There are no rest breaks currently scheduled.
– An audio recording of the event can be obtained by emailing publicprogrammes@whitechapelgallery.org following the event.
Transport
– To the best of our knowledge, there are no planned disruptions to local transport on the date of the event.
– Our nearest train station – Aldgate East Underground (1 min) is not wheelchair accessible. The closest wheelchair accessible stations are Whitechapel (15 min), Shoreditch High Street (15 min) or Liverpool Street (15 min).
– Free parking for Blue Badge holders is available at the top of Osborn Street in the pay and display booths for an unlimited period. Spaces are available on a first come, first served basis.
Live Recording
Please note: we audio record all events for the Whitechapel Gallery Archive. This audio material may also be used for our Hear, Now podcast series.
Join us for an evening of poetry and literary performances exploring themes of edges, deviance, borders, and liberation in partnership with the Centre for Contemporary Writing at Queen Mary. We’ll hear new work by Sophie Robinson, author of Rabbit (2018) and convener of the Devotion workshop series, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, whose most recent books are Writing the Camp (2021) and Eating the Archive (2023), Amber Husain, whose Meat Love: An Ideology of the Flesh (2023) came out last year and poet, artist, and filmmaker Redell Olsen.
Based in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London, the new Centre for Contemporary Writing hosts literary events, research and practice workshops, and publishes the Subtexts creative writing journal. Follow them on social media to find out more.
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Amber Husain is a writer based in South London. She is the author of Replace Me (Peninsula Press, 2021), Meat Love (Mack, 2023) and Tell Me How You Eat (forthcoming from Hutchinson Heinemann). She is currently completing a PhD in the history of art and medicine at UCL. She also teaches creative writing and criticism.
Sophie Robinson is a poet, novelist and nonfiction writer living in Norwich. Her poetry collection Rabbit (Boiler House Press, 2018) was the Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice. Her work has been published in Granta, The Guardian, Stylist, BOMB Magazine, The Believer, N+1, The Poetry Review and The White Review. She runs Devotion, a radical and inclusive online creative writing workshop series, and publishes regular essays on feeling at her Substack Feelings Almanac. She is currently finishing her first novel.
Born and educated in Baddawi refugee camp in Lebanon, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh is a scholar and poet who holds a DPhil in English Literature from the University of Oxford. He is Writer-in-Residence for the AHRC-funded Refugee Hosts project and the Joint-Lead of the Baddawi Camp Lab, as part of the Imagining Futures GCRF-Network+ project. His work has appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation, Critical Quarterly, GeoHumanities, Cambridge Literary Review, PN Review, Stand, New England Review, Poetry London and the Journal of Refugee Studies. His collection, Writing the Camp (2021, Broken Sleep Books), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was selected as one of the Best Poetry Books of 2021 by The Telegraph and the Irish Times; was Highly Commended by the Forward Prizes; and was shortlisted for the 2022 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. His latest book is Eating the Archive (2023, Broken Sleep Books).
Redell Olsen makes work across poetry, film-poems, visual and performance texts. Recent works include: Frownlands, 1969 (Performance, 2024), Weather, Whether Plume of the Volants (Book and Exhibition 2021), Woolf / Apelles (2019),Smock (2017) and Mox Nox (2017). Her film, Now Circa (1918) was a finalist for the AHRC Research in Film Award. She was awarded the Dare Art Prize in 2021. Poetry collections include: ‘Film Poems’ (Les Figues, Los Angeles, 2014), Punk Faun: a bar rock pastel (Subpress, 2012), ‘Secure Portable Space’ (Reality Street, 2004), ‘Book of the Fur’ (rem press 2000), and, in collaboration with Susan Johanknecht, ‘Here Are My Instructions’ (Gefn, 2004). She is Professor of Poetry and Poetics at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she convenes the influential Poetic Practice CW MA.
