Please join us at the iconic British Library to hear Christine Roseeta Walker in conversation, discussing memory in her recent collection, Coco Island.

Tickets are available here.

How Memories Become Poems
19.00 - 20.00

Remembered places, incidents, and relationships are at the heart of recent books by poets Anthony Joseph (Sonnets for Albert), Lawrence Scott (Looking for Cazabon), and Christine Roseeta Walker (Coco Island). How can poems reimagine and transform personal memories? These three books offer a masterclass in the power of verse to transform an achingly specific experience into something powerfully universal. In conversation with Fawzia Muradali Kane.

Note: The evening will consist of two sessions with a short interval, the first of which features Walker. More information about the other session can be found through the ticket link above.

This event will take place in the British Library Knowledge Centre Pigott Theatre. It will be simultaneously live streamed on the British Library platform. Tickets may be booked either to attend in person (physical) or to watch on the British Library's platform (online) either live or within 48 hours on catch up. Viewing links for the online version will be sent out in the confirmation email you receive after booking. Captions are available for online events and most in person events in the Pigott Theatre. If you have specific access requirements please email customer@bl.uk

Christine Roseeta Walker is a Jamaican poet and novelist whose poetry has appeared in PN Review, Wild Court, The Tangerine Magazine, Bath Magg and the anthology New Poetries VIII (Carcanet, 2021). Her work was also featured on RTÉ Radio 1-The Poetry Programme. She has recently completed her debut novel, The Grass is Weeping, a revenge tragedy set in Jamaica. Her first poetry collection, Coco Island, is published by Carcanet, 2024. She currently lives in Manchester, UK.