This is How I Fight: Rosie Garland Launch with friends

*Weather permitting this event may take place in the bookshop garden, please let us know if this raises any possible accessibility issues.

Join us for a night seeped in the poetry of danger and unknowing, wildness and strangeness.

How do we maintain connection in times of disruption? This Is How I Fight by Rosie Garland interrogates gods, beasts and monsters, but not to hammer down simplistic answers.

Through a queer perspective, poems shift between human and other, exploring where we might find the courage needed to forge a way through the world, one word in front of the other, proposing kindness as a radical act.

Garland - a poet, novelist and singer in post-punk band The March Violets - was named as one of the most compelling LGBT+ writers in the UK and made a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature in 2023. She is an astonishing performer and we could not be more excited to be launching her latest collection, supported by a trio of fierce talent: Janette Ayachi, Vik Shirley & Jane Goldman