Rosy Carrick
FRIDAY10TH OCTOBER 2025 | 7PM | £8.50/£6.50/ £4.50 + booking fee
Welcome to I LOVE – the Brighton launch of Rosy Carrick's new poetry collection, and the greatest night of your life! More than a book launch, this will be an immersive, theatrical, music-filled night of madness, memory, hope, lust and love – see you there!
About the book
In her second collection, award-winning poet and playwright Rosy Carrick presents a passionate, lyrical and unflinchingly intimate collage of ruptured memory, drowned childhood, irreducible violence, and the intoxicating chimera of inviolable desire. Experimental and playful, the poems dart across a fractured and eclectic terrain: from quantum mechanics, grimy London sex clubs and fridged women to blood retinal barrier corruption, haunted reservoirs and salted gastropods; from Baudrillard’s semiotics to the architectural aspirations of Elizabeth Bennet; from gurning infants to ecstatic glitter and misplaced canine arseholes; and always back to how it might be possible to love from under the rubble.
“Absolutely brilliant!”
I Love by Rosy Carrick - book cover
about the event
Two x 25 minute readings from the collection!
Slow Dancing!
Tattoo Parlour!
STD testing!
Aphrodisiac apothecary!
Missed Connections!
Love Tarot!
Love Advice Booth!
Sexy projections!
Magic Fish Love Test!
Barry White!
Seven MInutes in Heaven!
Suck and Blow!
DIY Sex Positions of The Fortnight!
Polaroid Kiss Cam!
And more!!!
[everything except apothecary potions is included in ticket price]
SCHEDULE
7pm - Doors
7-8pm - Time to play
8pm - First reading
8.30-9.30pm - Time to play
9.30pm - Second reading
10-11pm - Time to play
11pm - Home time