“Leatrice’s Yearbook Signing insists we feel again the way we felt when we were young, and shows us how. Refusing the comforts of distance and cynicism, these frank, yearning, open-hearted poems dare to take seriously the intense early relationships we’re expected to outgrow and forget.”
- Ali Lewis, Author of Absence
Join us to celebrate the launch of Yearbook Signing, the debut poetry collection by Leatrice.
When a bond is severed, we’re encouraged to move on, preserve our dignity, and pretend the relationship never existed. This unrealistic belief is a symptom of a modern anomie that can leave us longing for answers we never receive.
Yearbook Signing challenges this by chronicling relationships and entanglements – recognising the lasting impact that humans have on one another, and the persistence of memory.
Expect poetry, conversation, and celebration, with opportunities to ask questions, purchase signed launch edition copies, and raise a glass with the author and the Reconnecting Rainbows Press community. This is a fully accessible venue in the very heart of London's Covent Garden.
Host:
Iftikhar Latif (he/him) is a writer and poet of British-Bangladeshi descent from East London. His work often refers to the British Asian experience, immigrant family relationships, deconstructions of masculinity, media, culture and growing up in the city. He is cofounder and producer of 'Off The Chest'. He has worked with the V&A for their 2022 'Drip Maketh the Man' project, the Apples and Snakes 2022 Writing Room and was a resident poet at The Sidings in Waterloo Station in 2024.
Instagram: @yungifto
Featured Poet 1:
Clara Ada Mantegazza (she/her), is a poet and author. Her debut poetry collection ‘Luck is in the leftovers’ was published by Femmesocial Press in 2025 and selected for the Spring listings for The Poetry Book Society. She hosts, performs and curates a variety of poetry events and poetry workshops.
Instagram: @claramntgz
Featured Poet 2:
Ada Guida (they/them) is an Italian writer and artist born in Milan, in 2003, currently based in London. While enrolled as a BA Fine Arts student at UAL, Ada has been exploring themes like the sense of belonging, human’s relationship with nature, gender identity, lesbianism, and the tight seam between love and obsession.
Instagram: @ada_guida /