Northern Lights IN/FORM at Headingley Enterprise & Arts Centre

Organised by the brilliant poetry talent that is Kimberly Campanello, this showcase brings together eight-minute poetry experiments by ten writers, which is amazing value for money – especially as it’s completely free. Everyone is welcome, and we urge you are welcomed – this is one top line-up.

With: Caroline Bergvall, Tom Branfoot, Kimberly Campanello, JR Carpenter, Sarah Dawson, Jon Gilbert, John Goodby, Nasser Hussain, Tom Jenks and Nathan Walker.

Caroline Bergvall is an award-winning poet and sound artist working internationally across various artforms and languages – of French-Norwegian heritage, she has lived in England since 1989.

Tom Branfoot is a poet and critic from Bradford, England. His pamphlet This Is Not an Epiphany earned him the 2022 Poetry Business New Poets Prize. He is currently the writer-in-residence at the Manchester Cathedral, and was awarded a Northern Debut Award for Poetry in 2024.

Kimberly Campanello is the author of the poetry-object and durational performance MOTHERBABYHOME (zimZalla, 2019) and her next poetry collection, An Interesting Detail, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury Poetry in April 2025. She is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds.

JR Carpenter is an award-winning British-Canadian artist, writer, researcher performer and maker of zines working across performance, print, and digital media.

Sarah Dawson is a poet, artist, performer, researcher and educator. She is a PhD researcher at the University of Leeds, studying the practice of failure in contemporary experimental poetry performance. expecting a different result is her most recent publication, a collection of 40 poem cards.

Jon Gilbert, based in Leeds, is a PhD researcher comparing and contrasting the practice of two experimental poets from the 1950s to the 1980s, Bob Cobbing, from the UK and Steve McCaffery, from North America. In his own poetry, he is working in concrete/sound poetry.

John Goodby is a poet, translator, collagist, critic and editor – he co-edited, with Andrew Duncan, the new anthology of the second generation of British Underground Poetry, Arcadian Dustbelt (Waterloo Press). He’s an expert in Welsh innovative poetry and professor at Sheffield Hallam.

Nasser Hussain is a Lecturer in Literature and Creative Writing at Leeds Beckett University in the UK. His first book, boldface, was published in 2014. His research interests revolve around contemporary poetry and poetics, embodiment and performance, and creative writing.

Tom Jenks‘ most recent books are The Philosopher (Sublunary Editions) and Melamine (The Red Ceilings Press). In addition to writing poetry, prose and conceptual projects, he is the editor of zimzalla and a text artist, producing creative, computer generated visualisations of literary texts.

Nathan Walker is an artist and writer from West Cumbria, and a senior lecturer at York St John University. He works across and between performance art and poetry, exploring both the body and the page, and has presented work nationally and internationally.