In this unique event, two highly acclaimed and prize-winning English poets come together to share their poems and talk about the roots of creativity, language and what it means to be a poet in England today.

Roy McFarlane was born in Birmingham of Jamaican parentage and spent many years living in Wolverhampton and the Black Country. Nine Arches Press published his first two collections of poems: "Beginning With Your Last Breath" in 2016 and "The Healing Next Time" in 2018. He is the 2022 Canal Laureate. He currently lives in Brighton. In 2018 Roy McFarlane was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award and is Birmingham's Poet Laureate.

Stephanie Sy-Quia was born in 1995 and grew up in California and France, in a Filipino-European home. She currently works as a teacher, freelance journalist and print maker. Her writing has appeared in the FT Weekend, the TLS, the Economist, the Spectator and TANK magazine. She has twice been shortlisted for the FT Bodley Head Essay prize. Amnion, her first poetry collection, is published by Granta Poetry.

Tickets are £10 including welcome drink. UWL students are FOC