Sound Arts and Poetry: LCC Sound Arts X the87Press - Spring Edition

Free and open to all.

Join us at London College of Communication (Lecture Theatre B) for a poetry performance event with panel discussion and audience Q&A featuring Nisha Ramayya and Nat Raha. Raha's and Ramayya's practices blur the edges between sound-art and poetics, and recent publications have been accompanied by a wide range of performances. Following readings, Raha and Ramayya will be joined in dialogue by Azad Ashim Sharma for a panel on poetry and sound, introduced by Annie Goh, Course Leader of BA (Hons) Sound Arts at LCC. This event follows on from the first poetry performance event with the87press in Autumn 2025.

This event is taking place in Lecture Theatre B. Registration will open at 5.30pm and close at 7pm.

Dr Nat Raha is a poet and activist-scholar. She is the author of four books of poetry, including apparitions (nines) (Nightboat Books, 2024) and of sirens, body & faultlines (Boiler House Press, 2018). With Mijke van der Drift, Nat is co-author of Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds (Pluto Press, 2024), alongside articles in Social Text and The Funambulist, and co-editor of Radical Transfeminism zine.

Nat’s critical and creative writing appears in Queer Print in Europe, Transgender Marxism, The Brooklyn Rail, Wasafiri, Versus Versus, and a correspondence with Nisha Ramayya appears in Gestures: A Body of Work. Nat’s performance work includes epistolary (on carceral islands), co-commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival and TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway, 2023. She teaches in Fine Art Critical Studies at the Glasgow School of Art.

Nisha Ramayya works across poetry, criticism, and collaborative performance, and teaches creative writing. She’s the author of two poetry collections, Fantasia(Granta, 2024) and States of the Body Produced by Love (Ignota 2019; reissued by Spiral House Editions in 2025), as well as the co-authored pamphlets Threads and Siblings, among other publications. Fantasia hazards a listening walk through seashells, telecommunication networks, and cosmic vibrations, to learn something new about how we sound. Alice Coltrane's experiments in jazz and spiritual community guide these poems that hum and glitch, that leap across space-time, landing in and reflecting the discordant music of life on earth.

Azad Ashim Sharma is the director of the87press and serves as poetry editor at Philosophy and Global Affairs and the CLR James Journal; he is also the commissioning editor of The Hythe Review. He is a PhD Candidate in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of three poetry collections, most recently, Boiled Owls (Nightboat Books, 2024) which was shortlisted for the Jhalak Poetry Prize. His second collection Ergastulum: Vignettes of Lost Time (Broken Sleep Books, 2022) was the recipient of the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Outstanding Book Award. In July 2025, Azad was inaugurated as the Poet Laureate of the Caribbean Philosophical Association. He lives in South London and is currently working on a novel and his fourth collection of poetry.

Dr Annie Goh is an artist and researcher. Her work, in its numerous forms from sound installation, composition and computer music to writing, performance and social practice, takes a critical approach to contemporary debates in the fields of digital technologies, media arts, generative and computational processes and communication studies, with a particular focus on sound, intersectional feminism, decolonial theory and the politics of knowledge production. She is Course Leader of BA (Hons) Sound Arts, BA (Hons) Sound Arts: Design, BA (Hons) Sound Arts: Experimental Music at LCC, Senior Lecturer and a member of CRiSAP (Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice).

This event has been generously supported by the LCC Student Partnerships.

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