Strange Region x Tenement Press: An Evening of Poetry

Tickets Two Bristolian indie presses combine forces to launch “I don’t have things to tell you” by Mau Baiocco + Maria Sledmere and “All My Dead Jesters” by Nadia De Vries. Lineup: Nadia De Vries Mau Baiocco Maria Sledmere + guests “All My Dead Jesters” is an assembly of select poems previously published in de Vries’ first two English language collections—Dark Hour and I Failed to Swoon (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2018 and 2021 respectively). These old works have been lightly revised for republication and are paired with poems drawn from a manuscript-in-process to institute an autotelic kaleidoscope of some ten years’ worth of work in verse. De Vries’ poems are spare, terse and epigrammatical—a barroom Bashō—dedicated to the glimmer of a compact glance; the chance, glamour and negative capability of a passing thought; and the slow drip of liquid crystal as colours our present. “I don’t have things to tell you” is a collaborative poetry collection by Mau Baiocco and Maria Sledmere. Two poets writing from the edgelands of the internet during our asynchronous emergence from the Covid-19 lockdowns. Written as letters to one another between 2022-25, this collection charts the development of a shared creative form, a currency of intimate exchange born of longing and companionship. Entry Requirements: no age restrictions