People who’ve experienced homelessness have particular experiences of quarantine and social distancing. The insecurity and isolation all too familiar to the homeless are now felt widely through our locked down world. In our separation there are opportunities for connection. A chance to build solidarity. 

Join us for an evening with the I Am Not Who You Think I Am writing collective. Formed out of weekly sessions in East London’s Crisis Skylight under the tuition of novelist Miranda and New River Press this intense, playful, and extraordinary group have spent the lockdown penning masterpieces. This online event will be the premiere for many of them.

Let’s celebrate the salvations of poetry: shock treatment for the empathetic imagination. Laments for loved ones. Dream-songs of liberation. In times of crisis they offer relief and hope. Challenges to the problems of reality so personal and so rich.

The event will start on Youtube at 7pm on Thursday October 29th. Click here for more information. Please ‘Set Reminder’ for the video, and subscribe to the New River Press Youtube account.

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Well - David Bastin

And so they gathered by the well

And the well was empty

One by one

They disbursed

Back into the jungle

And the noises of the hidden

And unimaginable

And the rains came