POETRY READING / BOOK LAUNCH featuring IAIN BRITTON and GEOFF GILBERT & ALEX HOUEN
Sponsored by the Judith E Wilson Centre for Poetry & Poetics, University of
Cambridge, and Blackbox Manifold poetry journal
When & where: Thurs 23rd October 2025, 7:00pm – 8:15pm in the Old Library,
Pembroke College, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1RF.
Free and open to all!
Contact for enquiries: Alex Houen, email <ah217@cam.ac.uk>
Iain Britton will be launching his new pamphlet Uncertain Densities (Rufus Books, 2025), which is inspired by the work of New York photographer Diane Arbus. He has previously been nominated for a Forward Prize for Best Single Poem and Best First Collection. Iain’s pamphlets and small collections have been published by Kilmog Press, Like This Press, Oystercatcher Press, Interactive Press, and Lapwing Publications. The Intaglio Poems was published by Hesterglock Press 2017. Iain’s chapbook Project Constellation was published by Sampson Low in 2022.
Geoff Gilbert and Alex Houen will be launching their collaborative poem-novel See You Through (Broken Sleep Books, 2025), which explores social surveillance, intimacy, crime, and memory. Written in lockdown and online, the book has been described by Andrea Brady as ‘a totally new kind of poem, which is also a totally new kind of novel’. Geoff teaches in the Dept of Comparative Literature & English at the American University of Paris, and Alex teaches in Pembroke College, and the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge.
