To celebrate the launch of Jen Calleja’s debut poetry collection Serious Justice, Test Centre hosts an evening of readings and live bands at DIY Space for London.

Reading:

JEN CALLEJA
JACK UNDERWOOD
MAIKE HALE-JONES

Playing live:

TENSE MEN
SARCASM                                                                                                                 AL MCKAY (DICK DIVER)

JEN CALLEJA is a writer, literary translator from German and musician. Her writing has been published in Eyewear Publishing’s The Best New British & Irish Poets 2016, Test Centre, The Quietus and Structo. She is editor of Verfreundungseffekt, acting editor of New Books in German, translator in residence at the Austrian Cultural Forum London and columnist on literature in translation for The Quietus Books. Her latest book translation is Nicotine by Gregor Hens, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions. She plays in Sauna Youth, Feature and Monotony.

TEST CENTRE is an independent publishing house and record label with an interest in the spoken and written word. Based in Hackney, East London, it was established in 2011 by Will Shutes and Jess Chandler. Test Centre has put out books and recordings by Iain Sinclair, Chris Petit, Oli Hazzard, Tom Chivers, SJ Fowler and Robert Herbert MacClean. Forthcoming in 2016 are publications with Stephen Watts, Sophie Collins, Holly Pester and Erik Stinson

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