Nettles by Nazaret Ranea

Event blurb:

Join poet Nazaret Ranea for the launch of her debut collection, Nettles. She’ll be

joined by fellow Edinburgh-based poets Gabrielle Tse, Hermione Byron, and

Olivia Calderon for an evening of poetry rooted in belonging, memory, and

identity. Nettles asks what it means to grow up between places, to carry multiple

selves, and to find rootedness in the in-between. This event invites you into that

conversation. This will be a warm and special celebration of the themes at the

heart of the collection. Copies of Nettles will be available on the night, and

Nazaret will be signing books after the readings.

Nazaret Ranea:

Nazaret Ranea is a poet from Málaga, Spain, based in Edinburgh since 2017.

Named one of Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makars, her debut collection

Nettles explores nostalgia, memory, and the shifting notion of home. Her work

appears in over fifty publications in English and Spanish. She is the creator of My

Men and My Women, and editor of For Those Who Tend the Soil, in collaboration

with the Scottish Poetry Library. Nazaret has performed on BBC Radio Scotland

and at festivals including the Edinburgh Fringe, Edinburgh International Book

Festival, and StAnza, where she was the 2025 Poet in Residence.

More at nazaretranea.com.

Gabrielle Tse:

Gabrielle Tse is a Hong Kong-born writer of Chinese and Filipina descent. She’s

currently studying Comparative Literature in Edinburgh; previously, she read

Law at The University of Hong Kong.

For her poetry and short fiction, she was shortlisted for the Scottish Book Trust’s

New Writers Award in 2025 and won the Hong Kong Young Writers Award two

years in a row. This year, her debut poetry pamphlet Rustlings was published by

Verve Poetry Press.

Olivia Calderón:

Olivia Calderón is a queer Cuban American poet based in Edinburgh. Her work

has appeared in Gutter, Interpret, LIT Magazine, and is forthcoming in an

anthology of contemporary Florida writing. She was shortlisted for the Grierson

Verse Prize in 2023, and in 2024 self illustrated and published her first zine of

poetry entitled Florida Woman. Currently, she is a reader for OnlyPoems

magazine and editor in chief for guava, a new lit mag dedicated to

underrepresented voices.

Hermione Byron:

Hermione Byron is a poet and zine maker living in Leith. She has a playful

approach to writing poetry, finding wonder and a sense of play in everyday life.

She is currently reading a lot of e.e.cummings and Rumi

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