Readings by A J Moore, Imogen Cassels, Lila Matsumoto and Linda Kemp

A J Moore is a writer based in Sheffield. Work in Objects (Dunlin Press), Twisted Ink, The Sheffield Review/Route 57, Blackbox Manifold, D.O.R, eYeland, For The Love Of, The Babel Tower Noticeboard, Beir Bua Journal. Chapbooks M(P)atriarchive (Beir Bua Press) and Zeitgeist (c22 Press). Debut full-length collection Reference ≠ Endorsement (Erratum Press). She is a founder member of Cut Collective and a member of the Erratum Press project, the International Theory-Fiction Consortium. She is currently working on a collaborative chapbook with Cut Collective’s Mark Lindsey.

 

Imogen Cassels is the author of Hares on the mountain (2026) and Silk Work (2025), as well as the pamphlet, Peach machine (2025). Her essays and criticism have appeared or are forthcoming in the TLS, Poetry Review, Little Mirror, Oxford Poetry, and The Literary Review. She lives in London.

 

Lila Matsumoto's poetry books are Talk a Blue Streak (Monitor, 2026), Two Twin Pipes Sprout Water (Prototype, 2021) and Urn & Drum (Shearsman, 2018). Her band Mountain Hovel Circle recently released the album Mudgut (Infant Tree, 2026). She teaches creative writing at the University of Nottingham.

 

Linda Kemp’s most recent book, Lamentation (Broken Sleep Books, 2026), is a sustained poetic indictment of austerity and the financialisation of care. Working in the registers of liturgy, biblical lament, and feminist political economy, it carries the weight of an elegy for the welfare state. Tender, prophetic, and unsparing, the book is at once analysis and threnody. Kemp’s other poetry books are: The Moral Theology of the Devil / Clothed with the Sun (Leafe Press, 2025), Annunciation Sonnets (Broken Sleep Books, 2024), Stitch (Contraband, 2020), and Lease Prise Redux (Materials, 2016).

 

Curated by: agnes lehoczky, cpp.sheffield.

 

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