Lecture Series — Out-Spoken Press

Out-Spoken Lecture Series

Quarterly Poetry Lectures

A new quarterly series of poetry lectures, launching online on Thursday 26 November 2026, with esteemed poet and editor Matthew Hollis discussing The Waste Land.

Out-Spoken Lecture Series 01 - Matthew Hollis on The Waste Land - Thurs 26 November 2026, 7.30-8.30pm UK (Online)

£7.00

Join Matthew Hollis for the first of our Out-Spoken Lecture Series of quarterly poetry lectures, on The Waste Land.

Matthew will deliver a 45 minute talk on The Waste Land which will be followed by a Q&A session where you will have the opportunity to ask questions.

Date: Thursday 26 November 2026

Time: 7.30-8.30pm UK

Delivery: Online via Zoom

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Matthew Hollis

Matthew Hollis was born in Norwich, UK, in 1971. Ground Water (Bloodaxe Books, 2004) was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry. Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas (Faber & Faber, 2011; W. W. Norton, 2012) won the Costa Biography Award and the H. W. Fisher Biography Prize. The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem (Faber and Norton, 022) was a book of the year in the Financial Times, New Statesman and Sunday Times. Earth House (Bloodaxe Books, 2023), was longlisted for the Laurel Prize for Poetry. He is co-editor of The Poems of Seamus Heaney (Faber, 2025).

PRE-ORDER - Exhibit G by Fady Joudah

£25.00

What does it mean to be a Palestinian living in America during an active genocide on the Palestinian people? This is the question at the centre of National Book Award Finalist and Jackson Poetry Prize winner Fady Joudah’s new work. In this searing assemblage of poems, essays and photographs, Joudah uses his position as both poet and doctor to examine and respond to the catastrophic impact of Israel’s assault on the people of Gaza.

As erudite as it is tender, Exhibit G bonds together the relationship between poetry, lyric essays and photography, inviting readers to consider what genocide looks like from both an interior and exterior perspective. The images selected neither sidestep horror nor “curate” genocide. Exhibit G is not only an indictment on European, U.S. and Israeli policy, but an artefact which captures the steadfastness and inconceivable will of the Palestinian people.

Readers will find Joudah grappling with his own position of being both Palestinian and American; physician, poet and subject. The collection guides readers through the mess and injustice that has been enforced upon the Palestinians since 1948. As he reminds us, ‘Palestinian interiority prevails over the unspeakable, because Palestinians experienced the unspeakable more than once, expressed it as that threshold beyond which all suffering is created equal, and all joy for life, too.’

Format Hardcover
ISBN 9781919370514
Publication 10 November 2026
Dimensions 208pp, 9×7×0.75 in

lamping wild rabbits by Simon Maddrell

£11.99

Longlisted for the Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection at the 2026 Forward Prizes

A fine, fierce collection, bravely worded, compellingly well put-together.’ – Neil Bartlett

In Simon Maddrell’s wide and bracing world, childhood orbits the voice of a distant and sometimes dangerous parent. Memories of sex parties, dead friends and estranged lovers straddle the spaces between feeling and thought, loss and fatalism. lamping wild rabbits is a brave and expansive multiverse, exploring sexuality, queer desire, memory recall and testimony. With poems that pay homage to the late Derek Jarman, to verses which situate themselves in and around the Isle of Man, exploring Britain’s colonial presence through the subverted interplay of English and the Manx language.

A poly-vocal and multifaceted debut which is unafraid to confront the shame and stigma of HIV, while never allowing the poems to lose shape or pace, altering the lens to bring the reader’s attention to birdsong and the queer body in nature.

Maddrell has achieved a distinct and totally convincing sound through the literary geography of lamping wild rabbits, one that gives the impression it’s been everywhere and returned because it survived.