This new series of poetry and music performance events continues with three young innovative female artists. They each take up and push the boundaries of lyricism into something rich and strange.

Francesca Lisette is responsible for the Chlorine readings in Brighton. She is a fierce and powerful poet, full of original, delightful and frightening collocations of language and a melody desperately holding itself together despite the strain. Francesca Lisette is currently studying at the University of Sussex. Her work has appeared in Axolotl and Invisibly Tight Institutional Outer Flanks Dub (Verb) Glorious National High Violence. Her poem Tarorchid is forthcoming from Grasp Press.

Sophie Robinson combines highly original and effective performance techniques with powerful and moving linguistic lyricism cut in with a mastery of media practice. Her work has been included in the important anthologies The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (Reality Street, 2008) and Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century (Bloodaxe, 2009). Her book a,was published by Les Figues Press earlier this year. She has run creative writing workshops for both children and adults in the UK and Italy, and has read and performed in the USA and Ireland as well as frequently in this country.

Born in Wales to Iranian parents, Roshi Nasehi, is a singer -writer who presents her own evocative songs alongside sometimes quite radical interpretations of some of the Iranian songs she was brought up listening to. Roshi’s songs reflect her origins, influences and experiences in a personal and unique way accompanied by unusual piano or keyboard arrangements. When she interprets Iranian song it is in a personal style bringing a contemporary twist combined with an authentic understanding of context and language. Her debut EP Roshi feat. Pars Radio “And Stars” was described by Mixmag as 'stunningly beautiful Welsh-Iranian electronica torch songs' and a 'stone cold classic EP'. She has had a new CD out in October with her band Pars Radio, “The Sky and The Caspian Sea”.

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