A showcase highlighting some of the best new poetry in the region.Chijioke Ojukwu won ILF’s Words in the City 2015 Poetry Slam with an utterly compelling performance.Beverley Nadin, the Festival’s Apprentice Poet in Residence’s poem Bees was commended in the National Poetry Competition 2014. Her poems have appeared in PN Review, The Rialto, Magma, and Stand.Lola Haskins’ newest poetry collection, How Small, Confronting Morning, is scheduled for spring 2016. Her poems have appeared in The London Review of Books, Stand, Outposts, London Magazine and the Atlantic.Javaad Alipoor, artistic director of Northern Lines, is a writer, spoken word performer and theatre maker.Eleanor Rees and Sarah Corbett are published by Liverpool University’s Pavilion Poetry. Rees’ new collection is Blood Child. Her Andraste’s Hair was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Corbett’s fourth book, And She Was is an experimental riff on the idea of the novel-in-verse. Her collection The Red Wardrobe was shortlisted for Forward Best First Collection and the T. S. Eliot prize. This event is in two halves with an interval. Price includes a glass of wine.