Join us for the second installment of Tidings, our poetry reading series at Waterstones York!

Our September 2026 issue will feature Kimberly Campanello and include an open-mic for local voices to share their words with the community.

About Kimberly Campanello:

Across her writing and performance in whatever form it takes, Kimberly Campanello’s abiding preoccupation is with the power of the language to ‘change states’ in all senses of the phrase. She is the author of the poetry object and durational performance MOTHERBABYHOME (zimZalla, 2019). She is also an inaugural Markievicz Award winner from Ireland’s Arts Council and the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for (S)word State(s) (The Salvage Press, 2024) with Dimitra Xidous and Annemarie Ni Churreain and an Arts Council Ireland Literature Project Award for sorry that you were not moved (2022), an interactive digital poetry publication in conversation with Calvino’s Invisible Cities created in collaboration with…