Join us for the sixth event in the Wild Court Reading Series.

For this event, we welcome aclaimed poet, editor, translator and activist Stephen Watts, reading and in conversation with T.S. Eliot Prize-winning poet and King’s College London lecturer, Anthony Joseph. 

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Stephen Watts’s most recent books are Journeys Across Breath: Poems 1975-2005 (Prototype Publishing 2022, reprinted 2025) and Republic Of Dogs/Republic Of Birds (Prototype 2020, reprinted 2025). A black and white, 75-minute film The Republics was made by Huw Wahl from the latter. Stephen’s A Book Of Drawn Poems was published by Sylvia Editions in December 2025 and The Language Of It (Shearsman) and Explosion Of Words: Poems 2006-2026 (Prototype) are both forthcoming. He also edited Swirl Of Words/Swirl Of Worlds: Poems in 94 Languages Spoken Across Hackney (Peer Gallery, 2022) and is much involved in the translation and co-translation of poetries as a vital language energy.

Dr Anthony Joseph FRSL is an award-winning Trinidad-born poet, novelist, academic and musician. He is the author of five poetry collections and three novels. His 2022 collection Sonnets for Albert won the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2022. Joseph’s 2018 novel Kitch was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, and the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award. As a musician, he has released nine critically acclaimed albums, and in 2020 received a Paul Hamblyn Foundation Composers Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Lecturer in Creative Writing and English at King’s College London.

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This event will be held in the Pyramid Room, located on Level 4 of King’s Building, King’s College London, on the Strand.

Entry is free, but please reserve your tickets in advance below as space is limited.