Troy Cabida is the author of Neon Manila (Nine Arches Press, 2025), Symmetric of Bone (fourteen poems, 2024) and War Dove (Bad Betty Press, 2020). His work has been published by Seaford Review, TLDTD Journal, and bath magg, anthologised in State of Play, Bi+ Lines, and 100 Queer Poems, commissioned by Tiffany & Co., The R.A.P. Party, and Small Green Shoots, and shortlisted for the Bridport Prize for Poetry 2024. 

We’re delighted to welcome Troy and to celebrate his new collection Neon Manila, an exploration of the queer Filipino body in all of its skin and glitter. Looking at pop music, fashion, jewellery, dating mishaps, and everyday London life, the poems in this collection seek a better grasp of the relationships we build with ourselves, of the internal as constantly contoured by the external. 

The first half of this event will be open mic, so please feel free to bring and read a poem in a friendly and welcoming space.