BOOK LAUNCH: Jazmine Linklater and Fatema Abdoolcarim, with Rowland Hill

Join us for the Manchester launch of two poetry publications from Monitor Books: Jazmine Linklater’s Snagged on red thread and Fatema Abdoolcarim’s Tremble. Jazmine and Fatema will read and be joined by artist Rowland Hill.

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Jazmine Linklater is a poet and writer based in Manchester where she is a regional editor for the online art writing platform Corridor8. She has published four poetry chapbooks, most recently Figure a Motion (Guillemot Press, 2020). From October 2025 she is undertaking practice-based research in art writing and ekphrastic encounters at Sheffield University.

Fatema Abdoolcarim is an Indian-Pakistani Hong Konger who makes films and writes. Her films have been shown internationally, including at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Locarno Film Festival, and Osaka Asian Film Festival. Fatema’s essays and poetry can be read in publications by Prototype (London), The Munch Museum (Oslo), The Brooklyn Rail, and in the anthology of feminist writing, Gestures: A body of work (Manchester University Press, 2025). Tremble is her debut collection of poetry. She lives in the Baltic Sea, on the island of Bornholm.

Rowland Hill is an artist working across the visual and performing arts. She studied Drama and English before graduating in 2018 with a Masters from the Slade School of Fine Art. Her work has recently been presented at Raven Row (London), Full of Noises (Barrow), Dreamland (Margate), Castlefield Gallery (Manchester) and Pase Platform (Venice), as well as in publications including Motor Dance Journal, Ambit, Elephant and HOAX.

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