Join Shagufta Iqbal, Agnieszka Studzińska, and Robin Vaughan-Williams for readings from and conversations about their new poetry collections, all released September 2026:
Thursday 3 December 2026, 7–9pm at
OPEN Ealing arts centre, Unit 14 School Lane,
Dickens Yard, London, W5 2TD. OPEN Ealing is just 5 minutes walk from Ealing Broadway Station (Central, District, and Elizabeth Lines). Maps link.
Tickets are £5 and £12 and include refreshments:
- £5 (BOOK TICKET) – includes entry and a glass of wine (or non-alcoholic drink)
- £12 (BOOK TICKET) – includes the above plus a book of your choice (from the three publications mentioned above)
About the Poets
Agnieszka Studzińska (@househomepoetics) has a PhD in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway University of London. She also holds an MA in Creative Writing from the UEA. Her first debut collection, Snow Calling was shortlisted for the London New Poetry Award 2010. Her body of poetry includes What Things Are (Eyewear Publishing 2014) and Branches of a House (Shearsman Books 2021). She has had poems anthologised and featured in Writing Motherhood (ed) Carolyn Jess Cooke, Wretched Strangers, Borders Movement Homes, (ed) Agnes Lehóczky and numerous magazines. She teaches Creative Writing for the Poetry School and other educational institutes.
Seamless locates the self and the other within a rich tapestry of flora and fauna, never afraid to draw conclusions or to live with the uncertainty. Something immense and almost unnameable feels at stake in every poem. A brilliant and inspired collection. (Luke Kennard)
Robin Vaughan-Williams (@robinrvw) is a poet and producer based in London. His previous publications are The Manager (Happenstance Press) and How to Fix a Human (Sampson Low), and poems have appeared in magazines such as Acumen, Under the Radar, Long Poem Magazine, Dream Catcher, and Anthropocene. He has hosted live literature series in Sheffield, Nottingham, and Oxfordshire, and has been developing a practice in collaborative poetry improvisation since 2008. He’s been supporting creatives in West London since 2019, first at Creative People and Places Hounslow and then at Ealing Culture.
Robin Vaughan-Williams’s Data conjures an agile and darkly comic poetic presence. Lurid and yet poised, fantastical and yet disturbingly linked to a reality—this is a poetry that pretends to entertain whilst injecting its deadly analysis. (Mark Goodwin)
Shagufta K. Iqbal’s debut poetry collection Jam Is For Girls, Girls Get Jam was described by gal-dem as “heart-wrenching and relatable”, and praised by Nikesh Shukla as “a socio-political masterclass”. Her writing is included in Slam: You’re Gonna Wanna Hear This, Spin! and The Book of Bristol. She has worked with the V&A, Tate, Southbank Centre, Hyderabad, Lagos, and Toronto Poetry Festivals. She has performed with Tedx WOMAD, Shambala and Glastonbury Festivals. Her poetry film Borders is a powerful exploration of displacement and resilience, and has received multiple international awards and screenings. She also writes for children.
Pick up the tin-can phone under a night sky and Blue, Babe answers. Shagufta K Iqbal has written a collection that asks: is love the wound, the healing, the ruin & rebuild, or D) all of the above? And the answer, every time, is D. This astonishing collection explores the slow, radical work of new beginnings against a tapestry of families and desire. (Cynthia Miller)
