An Evening with Samatar Elmi: Agen Bien Fou and Reclamations

We’re thrilled to invite you to come and join the amazing Samatar

Elmi for his Swansea debut.

A bravura performer, Sam is an award-winning writer, musician and

educator. His debut pamphlet, ‘Portrait of Colossus’ (flipped eye

press, 2021), was selected as a PBS Pamphlet Choice. His stunning

debut collection, ‘The Epic of Cader Idris’ (Bloomsbury, 2024),

includes the 2021 Geoffrey Dearmer Prize winning poem.

His poems have appeared widely including in Poetry, Prairie

Schooner, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Magma, and Iota and

anthologised in More Fiya, Filigree, After Plath, and The Echoing

Gallery.

Elmi is an Obsidian Fellow, flipped eye press associate poetry editor,

and Scarf Magazine poetry editor.

As Knomad Spock, his debut album, ‘Winter of Discontent’ was

critically acclaimed in print (Clash Magazine, Afropunk, GoldFlakePaint, Equate Magazine) and radio (BBC 6 Music, BBC

Wales, Amazing Radio, Radio X).

His recent albums ‘A Darker Light’ and ‘Through the Walls’ are available on Bandcamp. 

As part of a large national tour, he will be in Swansea 2026, reading

from a pair of collections (Agen Bien Fou, Kulvert Books, 2026;

Reclamations: Disregard Prior Prompt, Aout Fecit, 2026).