An illustration by Kezia Lewis with swirling contour and ridge lines in pale and deep sky blues with a corner of deep indigo brush marks and thistle-lilac splatters of stars.

Time Cleaves Itself book launch events and replays

I’m excited to connect with you at an event to celebrate the launch of Time Cleaves Itself.

Dates for your diary

Friday 16th August – Edinburgh

Part of the Alt Book Fringe!

Friday 16th August, 6.30pm

Typewronger Bookshop

With Anthony (Vahni) Capildeo!

I have covid-19 🤒 so will be sending a recorded reading, but do go an hear Anthony read.


Monday 2nd December 2024 – Glasgow

More info coming soon 🙂


Pre-order Time Cleaves Itself

Time Cleaves Itself invites you into the split and rewoven threads of a disabled Scottish woman of colour’s intersecting, in between worlds as she navigates belonging and claiming space.

Landscapes and bodyscapes are brought into focus through lenses of race, illness, disability and womanhood.

Here lyrical acts of observation unfold with defiance, tenderness, rhythm and the occasional side-eye. The accordion of time stretches across poems that deliver a sonic meditation on memory, grief, disability, belonging and resilience.

Published by Peepal Tree Press on 4th July 2024.


Past Events and Replays

Thursday 4th July – Online

Thursday 4th July 2024 was the official launch, online with Peepal Tree Press.

Watch the replay below or on YouTube.


Graphic for event: Time Cleaves Itself: Tuesday 23rd July, 7pm, Jeda Pearl Poetry Launch featuring Courtney Stoddart & Lisa Williams

Tuesday 23rd July – Edinburgh

In conversation with Courtney Stoddart and guest reader Lisa Williams, in-person at Lighthouse Books, Edinburgh

Watch the replay.


8th – 12th August – WorldCon Glasgow

I didn’t have a Time Cleaves Itself event, but Shoreline of Infinity kindly sold some signed copies of Time Cleaves Itself and featured a couple of poems in their WorldCon newsletter.

We also celebrated the launch of the Nova Scotia Vol 2 short story anthology from Luna Press!

Plus SBWN is partnered with WorldCon on two events.



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