Little Books, Long Titles : Daniela Cascella + Ellen Dillon

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In this celebration of the joys of little books, Daniela Cascella and Ellen Dillon will read from and discuss the writing of their latest publications. Copies of both books will be available for purchase on the night Doors 7pm, event starts 7.30pm Refreshments available from cafe-bar Tickets from Eventbrite Daniela will read from Beauty, Burning: The Condition of Music ( Erratum Press 2026 ) and Ellen will read from How complete + final the feeling as I lift its curve in the net ( Broken Sleep Books 2026 ). Daniela Cascella is a writer and editor. Her books articulate an approach to writing she calls chimeric: monstrous, composite, many-voiced, driven by yearning, shaped across various tensions and points of contact between the literary and the sonic through experiments with form, voice, and ways of reading: Beauty, Burning: The Condition of Music (Erratum Press, 2026), Chimeras: A Deranged Essay, An Imaginary Conversation, A Transcelation (Sublunary Editions, 2022), Nothing As We Need It (Punctum Books / Risking Education, 2022), Singed. Muted Voice-Transmissions, After The Fire (Equus Press, 2017), F.M.R.L. Footnotes, Mirages, Refrains and Leftovers of Writing Sound (Zer0 Books, 2015) and En Abîme: Listening, Reading, Writing. An Archival Fiction (Zer0 Books, 2012). www.danielacascella.com Ellen Dillon has published works of poetry and hybrid prose on subjects including the life and work of Fernand Deligny, the history of butter in Ireland, Stephen Malkmus’s guitar, Stéphane Mallarmé’s teaching career, the dead of Sean Ross Abbey and the ghost of Townes Van Zandt. Her books are How complete + final the feeling as I lift its curve in the net (Broken Sleep, 2026), tentatives (Pamenar Press, 2023), Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel (HVTN Press, 2023), Butter Intervention (Veer 2, 2022), M orsel May Sleep (Sublunary Editions, 2021) and Sonnets to Malkmus (Sad Press, 2019). Her manuscript A Whale Called Milieu was shortlisted for the Prototype Prize for artists and writers working at the intersections of different forms.