Jake Wild Hall for Alanis Morissette

We're delighted to host Bad Betty Press founder Jake Wild Hall alongside award-winning poet Vanessa Kisuule for an evening of conversation about Jake's debut collection, Alanis Morissette.

'It takes a lot of skill to write poems that appear to have ‘written themselves.’ Broken forms, snippets of dialogue, pain mosaics - all working for a common purpose, to put the self back together." - CAROLINE BIRD

Jake Wild Hall is an award winning poet and one half of Bad Betty Press. He has performed on BBC Radio, at festivals across the UK and is a multiple slam champion. Already an author of two pamphlets, Alanis Morissette is Wild Hall's debut collection.

Bad Betty is an award-winning independent publisher of new poetry, and curator of live literature events taking place across the UK. London-born, Nottingham-based, Bad Betty Press was set up in 2017 by Amy Acre and Jake Wild Hall with the aim of showcasing exciting and risk-taking poetry, supporting poets’ artistic development and celebrating stories less often told.

Vanessa Kisuule is a writer and performer based in Bristol. She has won over ten slam titles and was Glastonbury Festival's Resident Poet in 2019. Kisuule wrote and hosted four series of the popular Radio 4 programme The Poetry Detective and has two poetry collections published by Burning Eye Books. Her work was Highly Commended in the Forward Poetry Prize Anthology 2019. Her debut non-fiction book Neverland: The Pleasures and Perils of Fandom was published in September 2024.

“This book is about grief, addiction and traversing masculinity as a boy born into a council estate in a soft frame of a body.”