Matthew Cheeseman, Logan Collignon, Ágnes Lehóczky & Adam Piette

 

 

Doors open:6.30pm, 6.45pm starting time.

 

 

Matthew Cheeseman works across fiction, non-fiction and poetry, often collaborating with artists to create books and pamphlets. At the University of Derby he is Professor of Writing and Folklore. He runs a small press, Spirit Duplicator, is a Council member of The Folklore Society and a trustee of Bloc Projects, a contemporary art gallery in Sheffield. @sduplicator; @eine.

 

Logan Collignon is a writer, researcher and teacher working at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her work is indexed to critical theory, specifically psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, and the more-than-human, and consists of a sustained and committed deconstruction of the so-called human that she performs in different contexts. She has published academic work on the technological unconscious of the American Cold War (Rocket States, Bloomsbury, 2014) and the insectile (The Insectile and the Deconstruction of the Non/Human, Routledge, 2022) and is active in creative writing publications and other forms of ‘fugitive’ writing, including a pamphlet on the (former) Borussia Dortmund captain Marco Reus. She has been working on a critical-creative and cultural-historical investigation of narcissism titled Case Study of a Partially Dead Object, attentive to the discourses available and unavailable to speak about traumatic dailiness. She does not necessarily consider herself a survivor, but definitely a mutant and a cyborg.

 

Ágnes Lehóczky’s poetry collections published in the UK are Budapest to Babel (Egg Box, 2008), Rememberer (Egg Box, 2012), Carillonneur (Shearsman, 2014), Swimming Pool (Shearsman, 2017), Lathe Biosas, or on Dreams & Lies (Crater Press, 2023) and Apropos Paradise Square (Pamenar Press, 2025). She also has three full poetry collections in Hungarian published in Budapest: Ikszedik stáció (Universitas, 2000), Medalion (Universitas, 2002) and Palimpszeszt (Magyar Napló, 2015). She is the author of the academic monograph Poetry, the Geometry of Living Substance – comprising four essays on the poetry of Ágnes Nemes Nagy (2011). Her pamphlet Pool Epitaphs and Other Love Letters was published by Boiler House Press (2017). She co-edited major international anthologies: the Sheffield Anthology (Smith/Doorstop, 2012) with Adam Piette, The World Speaking Back to Denise Riley (Boiler House, 2018) with Zoë Skoulding, Wretched Strangers (Boiler House, 2018) with J. T. Welsch and most recently the ‘Monk Collective’ with Adam Piette (Blackbox Manifold, 2023). Fission of Being – Endnotes on Earthbound was commissioned by The Roberts Institute of Art, London in 2021. She is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and Director of the Centre for Poetry and Poetics at the University of Sheffield. With Adam Piette she’s currently working on translations of Attila József (forthcoming in 2026 by Shearsman) and István Vörös (forthcoming in 2026).

 

Adam Piette is Professor of Modern Literature at Sheffield. He is the co-editor of the international contemporary poetry journal Blackbox Manifold with Alex Houen. He is author of Remembering and the Sound of Words: Mallarmé, Proust, Joyce, Beckett, Imagination at War: British Fiction and Poetry, 1939-1945, and The Literary Cold War, 1945 to Vietnam. He edited the special issue of Translation and Literature on “Modernism and Translation”, The Salt Companion to Peter Robinson with Katy Price (2007) and The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature with Mark Rawlinson (2012). He is the co-editor of the international contemporary poetry journal Blackbox Manifold with Alex Houen. He has had poems published in Stand, Adjacent Pineapple and elsewhere, the broadside pamphlet nights as dreaming (Constitutional Information / earthbound press), two collections forthcoming: CCCLXV with Crater Press (October 2025), and Lies Blurring Here with Broken Sleep (April 2026). Forthcoming too in 2026 will be a co-translation of the work of Attila József with Ágnes Lehóczky, with Shearsman in 2026, and an edition of the work of Australian poet Catherine Vidler's work, co-edited with Amelia Dale and A.J. Carruthers, with Puncher & Wattman.

 

This event is part of the Autumn Reading Series, 2025 organised by the Centre for Poetry and Poetics and will be held in The Project Space, The Lescar. Doors open at 6.15pm, readings begin at 18.30.pm. Copies of Adam Piette's new poetry collection will be on sale, pay by cash only.

 

This is an in-person event but you can also join us online. PLease log in by no later than 6.30pm: meet.google.com/vqk-imkj-hvh