Reading with Fatema Abdoolcarim, Carle Gent, and Iain Morrison.
Organised by Monitor Books
Friday 13th November, 7-9pm
Readers:
Fatema Abdoolcarim is an Indian-Pakistani Hong Konger who makes films and writes. Her films have been shown internationally, including at Locarno Film Festival, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and Osaka Asian Film Festival. Tremble (Monitor, 2025) is her debut collection of poetry, and was selected as a Spring Choice by the Poetry Book Society. She lives in the Baltic Sea, on the island of Bornholm.
Carle Gent is an artist from Bexhill-on-sea in Sussex. She’s been busy surrounding herself in swarms of yellow flies, trying to understand how her own internal mechanisms propel her into surrounding herself in swarms of yellow flies while also working out whether drawing pictures, making soundfiles or writing poetry can help her meaningfully recognise the gay and trans internal lives of swarms of yellow flies (and some other animals). She most recently exhibited her Mixtape for Julian of Norwich at Southwark Park Galleries in London and her pamphlet The Balls of Alban was published by Monitor Books in 2022. She is the sitar player in noise band Perple Celotape and is undertaking a practice-based DPhil at Ruskin School of Art, Oxford.
Iain Morrison is a poet and curator based in Edinburgh. His collection I’m a Pretty Circler was shortlisted for the Saltire Poetry Prize in 2019. A collaborative collection CRONEQUEEN HAGBITCH MOONGODDESS with Jane Goldman and Jill Smith is forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books in 2028. With artist Corin Sworn, he is the holder of this year’s Push the Boat Out residency at Little Sparta. His work has appeared in anthologies such as Makar/Unmakar: Twelve Contemporary Poets in Scotland and group publications such as not just A NY QUINCUNX, alongside Colin Herd, Jane Goldman, Nicky Melville and Maria Sledmere. His extended essay on the poetry of Callie Gardner was published in the Scottish Literary Review’s recent Queer Form special issue. In 2026 he curated Fruitmarket’s the poem that could not wait, a poem sculpture exhibition of work by CAConrad and Anna Mendelssohn. Iain studied music at the University of Cambridge. His practice moves between artforms, often ending up in a gallery.