Oz will be reading mainly from his chapbook, Retrofuturism for the Dispossessed (Hedgehog, 2024), a collection of temporally disruptive prose poems in which, in the words of bona fide rock legend Arthur Brown, "time dissolves before our very eyes as, with humour, Oz fearlessly dissects hopes, dreams, and delusions."

And the biog:

Oz Hardwick is a European poet who has published “a dozen or so” full collections and chapbooks, including Learning to Have Lost (Canberra: IPSI, 2018) which won the 2019 Rubery International Book Award for poetry, and most recently Retrofuturism for the Dispossessed (Clevedon: Hedgehog Poetry Press, 2024). His manuscript Orion Highway won the 2024 Dolors Alberola International Poetry Prize and will be published by Dalya Press in 2025. He has performed internationally at major festivals and in back rooms of pubs, both solo and in company with other writers and musicians in diverse genres. Oz is Professor of Creative Writing at Leeds Trinity University (UK).