Philip Nikolayev, author of the collections Letters from Aldenderry (Salt) and Monkey Time (Verse Prize winner), will join six other poets in a reading. Simon Barraclough, Isobel Dixon and Mark Waldron each have a first collection forthcoming from Salt; Annie Freud, Roddy Lumsden and Tim Wells complete the lineup. 7:30-9pm at the Poetry Studio, 22 Betterton Street, Covent Garden, London, on Friday July 29th (Holborn or Covent Garden tube); £5 entry.