Lila Matsumoto
Jazmine Linklater
Alan Fielden

Saturday 27 June, 4pm

@beam.art.books.coffee
33 Seely Road
Nottingham NG7 1NU

Join us for the Nottingham launch of Lila Matsumoto’s third poetry collection, 𝘛𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘢 𝘉𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬, published by Monitor. With readings from Lila, Jazmine Linklater (@jjhlinklater) and Alan Fielden (@alan_fielden). Free – book tickets via the link in the bio.

Poster by Rei

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Lila Matsumoto’s publications include 𝘛𝘸𝘰 𝘛𝘸𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘪𝘱𝘦𝘴 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 (Prototype, 2021), which was commended for the Forward Poetry Prize and recommended by the Poetry Book Society, 𝘜𝘳𝘯 & 𝘋𝘳𝘶𝘮 (Shearsman, 2018), and 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘝𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘌𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 (In Other Words, 2024). She plays in the band Food People and teaches creative writing and poetics at the University of Nottingham.

Jazmine Linklater is a poet and writer based in Manchester, where she is a regional editor for the online art writing platform Corridor8. She has published four poetry chapbooks, most recently 𝘚𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 (Monitor, 2025). She is undertaking practice-based research in art writing and ekphrastic encounters at Sheffield University.

Alan Fielden is a British-Korean writer, performance maker, and poet. Winner of the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award for 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘯, with JAMS, co-produced by the Barbican. Recent productions include 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘳 at New Diorama Theatre, April 2025. His writing has been published by Prototype, If A Leaf Falls, Minor Literatures, Broken Sleep Press, and a collection of his plays is forthcoming with Monitor.