Nols Nathankski sits down with Emma Keun, (she/her) to discuss following your butterflies, the queering of religious imagery and the best places to get emo at the open mic.

Emma is published online (Dark Poets Club) and in hard copy anthologies (Kite String II and III; via Word Space, an open mic and poetry collective). She lives in London and when not performing or writing, attempts making and growing things. She has a poetry website https://elkwrites.substack.com/and can be found on Instagram as @elkwrites000555.

Nols and Emma make poems from Kim Addonizio's Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the poet within.

Emma Shouts out

@wordspace

@lostsouls

@steviepoems

@s-barks LGBTQIA open mic @ Morocco Bound

Everything Poetry @ The Walrus, Lambeth

Firepit Tales @ Firepit Art Gallery, Greenwich

That Goddamn Poetry Jam @ Fiddlers Elbow, Kentish Town

Poets in Putney

Crossword Lyric

See Emma perform at Stokey Bookshop on the 22nd January 2026 as part of a fundraiser for Hackney Night shelter.

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