Roshni Gallagher & Clementine Ewokolo Burnley

Join us for a special double-feature poetry launch event with Edinburgh-based poets Roshni Gallagher and Clementine Ewokolo Burnley!They will both be here to celebrate the publication of their brand new collections, Gallagher's Even the Trees and Burnley's Belling the Leopard, with poetry readings and conversation.This event will take place in the bookshop with an in-person audience, as well as a livestream for attendees watching from home. There will be a signing after the poetry readings.About Even the Trees:In her debut collection Roshni Gallagher asks what can be seen, named or remembered. From Scotland to Guyana, the poems explore the porous boundary between the past and the present, and how ecological landscapes and landscapes of the mind and body are permanently altered by migration and memory. The elegiac series of poems Kala Pani reflects on the history and legacy of Indian indentured labourers in the Caribbean. Following the experience of women in the moment of rupture as they cross the ocean, these poems hover at the border of what is known and unknown.Other poems navigate stories from Gallagher’s mixed heritage, from the Windrush generation to the sod houses in Ireland. She explores the tension between historical and personal silence – what can and can’t be spoken about.