(ANNOUNCEMENT) AFK #2

Poets spend too much time glued to screens. Facts. Step AWAY FAE YER KEYBOARD and join us for a new IRL series in collaboration with The Doublet, free and open to all. ft. a hand made pamphlet available with the readers’ work on the night (we are accepting donations!).

We are pleased to announce our second event in the series, AFK #2!

SUNDAY 27th APRIL

7-9pm (doors at 6.30)

The Doublet Upstairs Bar, Glasgow

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THE (undeniably killer) LINE UP:

Ruthie Kennedy is a writer and teacher from Glasgow. Her debut pamphlet Room to Swing a Cat was published in 2020 and in 2022 she edited the Glasgow edition of Dostoyevsky Wannabe’s Cities series. She writes the world as she sees it. 

Eilidh Akilade is a writer and arts worker from and based in Glasgow. She is currently Intersections Editor at The Skinny and her work can be found in publications such as MAP Magazine, Gutter, Extra Teeth, and gal-dem, amongst others. Her debut pamphlet, Nitpicking, was published with Rosie’s Disobedient Press in 2025.

Myles Westman is a writer, artist and musician based in Glasgow. Their current work responds to the reverberating afterlives of the transatlantic slave trade through speculative research and fabulation concerning the life and death of Joy Gardner, entitled the truth is dead and we would like to know Joy.

They have published their work with Peanut Press, Free Black University, RACE.ED, and recently co-founded the Glasgow-based Polyterror Press.

Titilayo Farukuoye (they/them) is a writer, educator and organiser based in Glasgow. Their work addresses social justice and community care and is informed by dreaming and the radical imagination. Titilayo co-directs the Scottish BPOC Writers Network and is a winner of the 2022 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. Their debut poetry pamphlet In Wolf’s Skin is available with Stewed Rhubarb Press. Titilayo’s non-fiction book But We Did: Dismantling colonialist myths towards collective liberation is forthcoming with 404 Ink in Autumn 2025.

Richard Price: In the words of the poet Peter McCarey his poetry “goes to work on all the major events of our small lives”. Carol Rumens adds: “Richard Price’s poetry is inventive, sometimes dazzling, but never merely showy. He threads the political into the personal when he writes love poetry, and his intensely felt lyricism is sinewy with warning." His collection Small World won the Creative Scotland Award in 2016. More recent works include Late Gifts which braids an exploration of fatherhood in middle-age with poetry exposing consumerism's interaction with the environment. Richard often works with artists and his latest artist's book is with Simon Lewandowski — Tinderness, exploring the lives behind the dating apps.

Access: The Doublet upstairs bar and toilets are not wheelchair accessible. Seating is first come, first served, but if you have access needs for seating, email us at spamzine.editors@gmail.com and we will reserve.

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Published: 9/4/2025