I Believe In Many: a poetry reading

Join us for a rare gathering of prize-winning poets from across the British Isles. Featuring readings from Juana Adcock, Patrick Romero McCafferty, Tim Tim Cheng, Colin Bramwell, Clara-Læïla Laudette and Zain Rishi, I Believe In Many will showcase the variety and richness of poetry in the UK right now. From the occult to the everyday, these readings will span love, belonging, grief, land and protest. Come all ye plenty. Doors: 7:00pm Readings: 7:30pm Clara-Læïla Laudette is a writer, facilitator and journalist. Her debut pamphlet Appetite is published by fourteen poems. She won Magma Judge’s Prize and placed third in the Poetry London and London Magazine Prizes. An Adrienne Rich Poetry Award semifinalist, she's been highly commended in the Bridport Prize and shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, Oxford Poetry and Pat Kavanagh prizes. Her interviews, translations and reviews are widely published. Tim Tim Cheng is a poet and translator. They wrote The Tattoo Collector (Nine Arches Press, 2024) and Tapping at Glass (Verve, 2023). They co-edited Magma 93: Liberation (2025) and Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology (Verve, 2023). Born and raised in Hong Kong, they live in Glasgow. Patrick Romero McCafferty is a Mexican-Scottish poet. His pamphlet, Glass Knot Sun (ignition press, 2025), won a Michael Marks Award. Juana Adcock (Monterrey, 1982) is a poet and translator. She is the author of Manca (2014) and Split (2019) a Poetry Book Society Choice and one of the Guardian's Best Poetry of 2019. Her latest collection, I Sugar the Bones (2025), was shortlisted for both the Forward Prize and the Saltire Award for best poetry collection, as well as Scotland's National Book Awards for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. Her work has been translated into over 10 languages and has appeared in Words Without Borders, Asymptote, and Glasgow Review of Books, among others. She is co-editor of Temporary Archives: Poetry by Women in Latin America (Arc Publications/Edge Hill University Press). Colin Bramwell was born in Ayrshire, grew up in Fortrose on the Black Isle and lives in Edinburgh. He came second in the 2020 Edwin Morgan Poetry Prize. His Fower Pessoas (Carcanet 2025) won the Oxford Weidenfeld Prize and the Highland Book Prize. His first collection of poems was published by And Other Stories in September 2026 has received rave reviews from The Guardian, Financial Times, The Scotsman and LitHub. Zain Rishi is a writer from Birmingham, UK. He won the 27th annual Ware Poets Competition and was longlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem 2026. His debut pamphlet, Noon, was published in February 2026 and was a Shakespeare & Company Year of Reading selection. He edits poetry reviews for Gutter magazine and serves on the Carcanet advisory board. Embassy Gallery is located in a street level venue, with one small (< 3cm) step leading into the space. We have one gender-neutral toilet, which is down one flight of stairs. More details about the venue and accessibility can be found here, and please do email us at [email protected] if you have any questions.