Jaime Lock poetry launch

We're celebrating the release of Jaime Lock's debut pamphlet, 'She will need a stable boy', published by fourteen poems.

Jaime will be reading poems and chatting about the book and their work. There will be the opportunity to buy books and have them signed by Jaime.

And because we always like to make a night of it, we'll also have readings from Gayathiri Kamalakanthan, Erica Gillingham, and Lalah-Simone Springer.

Our reading event will take place at BRIC, a trans-owned and community-led cafe and events space in east London.

Come celebrate with us!

Praise for 'She will need a stable boy':

Jaime Lock’s debut pamphlet is both ‘full of gender’ and steeped in nature. In She will need a stable boy, a beard is ‘gorgeous orange lichen’, a trans body is a body full of seeds, waiting to blossom into flowers. These are poems about sex, the pull of attraction, the intensity of desire, Jaime’s love for Kate Bush, Ocean Vuong, Eileen Myles, their named and unnamed friends and partners. Lock’s careful placement of language throughout these poems shows us their evident love for the reader, too.

William Keohane

In She will need a stable boy, Lock leads us through fields of transness, grounded by dreams of escape, shoals of trans guys in the gym, and rural rememberings. These are aqueous, honest poems of becoming. Dive in!

Remi Graves

Tender and playful, She will need a stable boy charts the architecture of masculine selfhood with an expert lightness of touch.

John McCullough

About our readers

Erica Gillingham is a queer poet, writer, and former bookseller living in London, England, via Siskiyou County, California. She writes a substack newsletter Call Me Mama that covers queer parenting, fashion and food, and her poetry and essays have been published in various journals, anthologies, and on BBC radio. Her debut poetry pamphlet The Human Body is a Hive was published Verve Poetry Press in 2022. She exists online at @ericareadsqueer.

Gayathiri Kamalakanthan is a Tamil poet and producer. Their play Period Parrrty is a trans Tamil romcom and opens at Soho Theatre later this month. Their debut novel-in-verse, Bad Queer, is forthcoming with Faber. @unembarrassable

Lalah-Simone Springer is a working-class poet and speculative fiction writer (she/they). In 2023 Lalah’s debut poetry collection, An Aviary of Common Birds (Broken Sleep Books), was released alongside their debut album Cyclical Music. Collaborations as a performance artist have been staged at The Barbican, Whitechapel Gallery, the Southbank Centre and more. @lalahsimone