Lily Blacksell - Life Immediately: Poetry and Conversation With Lily Blacksell

Join Lily Blacksell for readings and conversation focused on her debut poetry collection Life Immediately ('full of fun' - Sunday Times).Lily is a writer and events programmer based in London but often found on the Isle of Wight, where she spent much of her childhood.

Many of Lily's poems are set on and inspired by the island, as she explores the natural world and our place within it.

Beyond the familiar coastlines and footpaths, there's much more to recognise in Lily's poems, which find 'the exceptional and the unbelievable in the everyday...the hilarious details that make a day bearable' - Idler.Come along for poems of precision and liveliness, music and lyrics, wit and womanhood, comedy and calamity, as Lily shares her work and offers some insights and tips from her writing life so far.Lily will be in conversation with Island-based writer and editor Emma Elobeid, who will also share some of her own poems.