Thursday 4th June

Colin Herd / Meredith MacLeod Davidson / Anjeli Caderamanpulle

Join us for the Glasgow launch of AQUAFABA by Colin Herd (Spite Press 2026)

Aquafaba (Spite Press 2026) is the sappy gluey liquid that beans or chickpeas float about in, cushioning their collisions with one another in tins or jars. It takes on traces of the legumes as they fray and bump at the edges. But when enough air is introduced, this seemingly inconsequential byproduct, destined to be wasted, forms a foam with enough stability to obtain aerated structures and dizzying peaks.

In this new collection by Colin Herd poetry is figured as the slushy, hokey, surfeit fluid we knock about in as we leach our own emotional starch. Unabashed by sentiment, impetuous and weak-at-the-knees by craft, these poems wonder if language too might be transformational when subject to frenzied motion.

Colin Herd is a poet. His previous solo books and pamphlets include Like, Too Ok, Glovebox, Swamp Kiss, Click & Collect and You Name It. With S J Fowler he co-wrote Oberwilding - a book of poems on the work and life of Oskar Kokoschka. With Maria Sledmere, he co-wrote Cocoa & Nothing, a book of poems about Ritter Sport chocolate. He is also editor or co-editor of the anthologies Glasgow Cities, All Becomes Art I, All Becomes Art II and Edwin Morgan Centenary Collection. His own work has been anthologised in such collections as 100 Queer Poems, Fierce Salvage, Dear World and Everyone In It, Makar/Unmakar, Forward Prize Anthology 2014, and Be The First To Like This. He is currently at work on a novel in the form of 120 T Shirts.

Meredith MacLeod Davidson is a Glasgow-based poet and writer, originally from Virginia. Their debut poetry pamphlet, Transpiration, was published in October 2025 with ignitionpress. Meredith's poetry has been published in journals that include The London Magazine, Gutter, Foglifter, filling Station, trampset, and Puerto del Sol. Meredith is the co-founder of crisp packet poetry, and co-curates Glasgow's Discount Guillotine reading series.

Anjeli Caderamanpulle is a poet writing about culture: how we consume it, perform it, and live inside it. Her pamphlet boys, a series of love poems addressed to a succession of white boys of the week, was published with Spam Press in 2020. She also edits Meet Cute Zine, with its most recent issue featuring writing on The Twilight Saga. She is currently writing, watching, and thinking about the Real Housewives.