An Evening of Poetry

Join award-winning poets Theresa Muñoz, Daryl Lim Wei Jie, Medha Singh, and Tim Tim Cheng for an evening of poetry, followed by a Q&A. Come along for a night of language that lies beyond the archives, collective exhaustion, grief, love and tattoos.

Theresa Muñoz was born in Vancouver, Canada and lives in Edinburgh. She is a poet, researcher and creative producer. She has a PhD in Scottish Literature from the University of Glasgow. She has published one collection of poetry, Settle, which shortlisted for the Melita Hume Poetry Prize. Her second collection Archivum, an exploration of what it means to engage with archival artefacts, is published by Pavilion Poetry (2025). She has been awarded the Muriel Spark Centenary Award, Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship, Creative Scotland Award and shortlisted for The Kavya Prize and a Sky Arts Royal Society of Literature Writers Award. She has directed several literary initiatives in the UK, including the Newcastle Poetry Festival and the James Berry Poetry Prize.

Daryl Lim Wei Jie is a poet, translator and editor from Singapore. His latest collection, Anything but Human, a finalist for the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize. He conceptualised two anthologies: Food Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet, which was awarded a Special Award at the 2023 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2023, and The Second Link, a collection of Singapore and Malaysian writing about the unique relationship between the two countries, which was shortlisted for Best Literary Work at the Singapore Book Awards. He won the Young Artist Award in 2023, Singapore’s highest award for young art practitioners. www.darylwjlim.com

Medha Singh is an award-winning poet, translator and editor. Her writing is published internationally, widely anthologised, and translated into French, Spanish and Hindi. As winner of the Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award for Poetry in 2024. Her latest collection, Afterbody, is due to be released in May by Blue Diode (Edinburgh). Singh has published a work of translation I Will Bring My Time: Love Letters by S.H. Raza (Vadehra Art Gallery, 2020), a collection of love letters translated from the French, penned by Indian modernist painter Sayed Haider Raza during his time in France, and her poems appear in Ecdysis (Paperwall, 2017). Singh won the wRICe fellowship in 2020 (Australia, RMIT University) and was long-listed for the Toto Funds the Arts Awards (India) in 2019 and 2020.

Tim Tim Cheng (she/they) is the author of The Tattoo Collector (Nine Arches Press, 2024), which was longlisted in The Jhalak Prize 2025 and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her pamphlet, Tapping at Glass (Verve, 2023), was shortlisted for The Kavya Prize and named one of The Poetry Society’s Books of the Year. She co-edited Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology (Verve, 2023). In her work, she explores the intersection between the personal and political, land and body. www.timtimcheng.com