Ghazal Mosadeq is a poet, editor and translator. She is the founder of Pamenar Press, an independent publisher of poetry, translation, hybrid and critical writing. Her own work has been published by gammm Press, Tamaas, Litmus Press, Firmament and Blackbox Manifold among others. She is a member of the editorial advisory board for the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry.
J. R. Carpenter is an artist, writer, researcher, and Lecturer at University of Leeds. Her work asks questions about place, displacement, migration, colonialism, and climate across performance, print, and digital media. Her hybrid print-digital project This is a Picture of Wind was listed in The Guardian’s best poetry books of 2020 and featured in the the Digital Storytelling exhibition at the British Library 2023. Her most recent collection Le plaisir de la côte / The Pleasure of the Coast was published by Pamenar Press in 2023. https://luckysoap.com
Fran Lock is the author of numerous chapbooks and thirteen poetry collections, most recently 'a disgusting lie': further adventures through the neoliberal hell-mouth (Pamenar Press, 2023). Fran was the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow at Cambridge University (2022-23), researching feral subjectivity through the lens of the medieval Bestiary. A collection of hybrid essays based on her research, titled Vulgar Errors/ Feral Subjects was published by Out-Spoken Press late last year. Fran is a Commissioning Editor and maid of all work at the radical arts and culture cooperative Culture Matters. She hates the Tories and all who sail in them. She lives in Kent.
Safaa Fathy was born in Egypt. She is a poet, essay writer and filmmaker. She had her PhD form the Sorbonne University and has been director of programme at the Collège International de Philosophie, Paris. Her plays Terror and Ordeal were prefaced by Jacques Derrida, with whom she signed a book, Tourner les mots (partly translated into English by Max Cavitch, University of Pennsylvania). Her book of poetry Revolution Goes Through Walls (SplitLevel Texts) was first published in Egypt, then in France, and in Brazil. Safaa Fathy’s experimental book of poems entitled Al Haschische is published by Pamenar s Press (London, directed by Ghazal Mosadeq2023). Where not to be Born, 2024 is published by Litumus Press NY. Safaa Fathy’s Name to the Sea, a film poem structured within a still frame, is being published along with the text in seven languages (Vanilla planifolia, Mexico City). Safaa Fathy has been writing a novel in English for the past five years.
The reading will be followed by a conversation with Pamenar Press, its editor, Ghazal Mosadeq and its writers run by Agnes Lehoczky.
Please note this is a free event (students, staff and public); all warmly welcome. There will be Pamenar books on sale before, during and after the readings.