Produced and presented by The Cockpit
RE:ENCHANT - Poetic Experiments For A New World
Live literature every third Sunday at 5.00pm.
The world changes: we make new poetry to vandalise literary forms or retrieve those we need to renew. We make new poetry to hybridise new species of understanding and reframe consciousness.
We make new poetry to have a good time.
Readings, recitations, incantations and events from established and upstart poets, word artists, ranters, spell-casters, rappers......and you if you want.
SUNDAY 20 April
Nick Makoha
Nick will be reading from his new work The New Carthaginians (Allen Lane 2025) In The New Carthaginians, time – and with it the world – is out of joint. A hijacked plane lands at Entebbe International Airport in 1976, triggering the crisis that leads to Uganda becoming a pariah state and later to the young Makoha’s escape from the country.
”A work that’s ingenious and bold in its formal daring." - Erica Wagner, Literary Editor for Harper's Bazaar, contributing writer for The New Statesman
”Nick Makoha has found an otherworldly, visionary voice and diction that arrest you from the first page and never let you go." - Roger Robinson
Nick Makoha is a Ugandan poet and playwright based in London. His debut collection, Kingdom of Gravity, was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize and was one of the Guardian’s Best Books of the Year.
His poems have appeared in The New York Times, the Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Wasafiri, Boston Review, and Callaloo. He is the founder of Obsidian Foundation, winner of the 2021 Ivan Juritz Prize and the Poetry London Prize.
Plus poets in our open mic slot.
To apply for the open mic slot click here.
Curated and introduced by Nick Moss in collaboration with The Cockpit
Sunday 20 April - 5:00pm
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