Join us on publication day for an online celebration of acclaimed poet Jeremy Dixon's latest collection: The Beat The Pulse The Wave.
Life comes at you in waves, sometimes they carry you to new shores, sometimes you risk drowning in the flood. Life is a pulse, a heart pumping the blood of now and the blood memories of the past and of your ancestors. Life is a beat, a dance, a festival where you watch Portishead in a field as the sun sets. Life is the rhythm of all three together, it is the beat, the pulse, the wave that brings you to this moment.
In his second full-length collection for Arachne Press, Jeremy Dixon pauses to consider and celebrate that which was, that which is and that which could be.
Jeremy Dixon is a prize-winning poet, performer, workshop leader and maker of Artist’s Books. His poetry has appeared in many print and online magazines including: Butcher’s Dog, Roundyhouse and Queerlings. His first collection A Voice Coming From Then (Arachne Press, 2021) won Wales Book of the Year Poetry Award 2022. Jeremy is the co-editor of Joy//Us: Poems of Queer Joy (Arachne Press, 2024) and Up//Roar: Poems of Queer Resistance (Arachne Press, October 2026).
Jeremy will read from The Beat The Pulse The Wave and share more about the inspirations and motivations behind the collection, in an evening of informal poetry and conversation.
We will also share a first look at forthcoming Arachne Press anthology, Up//Roar: Poems of Queer Resistance - with some of the first public readings from the book and guest appearances by poets Jamie Fearn and Conway Emmett.