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Contested Bodies

Sat 14 Nov · 12:45

The Pleasance Edinburgh

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Contested Bodies will take place on 14 November 2026 at The Pleasance Edinburgh. This reading and discussion will feature poets Kim Moore and Charlotte Van den Broeck, exploring themes related to the female body through their recent collections. The event will be chaired by Saskia McCracken.

The work of Kim Moore and Charlotte Van den Broeck is compelling, innovative and original. In this reading and discussion, chaired by Saskia McCracken, we’ll be hearing from the recent collections of both poets, which explore the female body as contested landscape. In The House of Broken Things by the Forward Prize-winning poet Kim Moore, motherhood is transformative in all its complexity and ambivalence. Invoking the spirits of Anne Sexton, Emily Brontë, Adrienne Rich and others, Kim conjures an intimate atmosphere of haunted domesticity. Published in David Colmer’s translation, The Inside of a Stone, the latest collection by acclaimed Belgian poet Charlotte Van den Broeck explores the emotional resonance and metaphorical relationships between desert landscapes and womanhood.

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Contested Bodies takes place on Saturday, 14 November 2026 at 12:45.

Contested Bodies is held at The Pleasance Edinburgh in Edinburgh (60 Pleasance, Edinburgh South EH8 9TJ).

The forecast for Contested Bodies is Partly cloudy · 5°C. Cold with a sharp wind — it will feel worse than the number.

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