Ellen Renton
Join us for an evening of poetry with Ellen Renton, as she reads from her new pamphlet, published by Verve Poetry Press.
Swinging across timelines, and from the mundane to the surreal, You and Yours is a study in grief: how it exists beyond seismic losses in the stories we inherit, in shifting friendships, and in uncertain landscapes. These poems celebrate the self as a malleable entity under the influence of all the lives it encounters, and balance the pain that characterises the loss of a profound connection with the wonder of having it in the first place.
Ellen Renton is a writer from Edinburgh. Her work has been published in journals including Poetry London, Gutter, and Magma, and she released her debut pamphlet An Eye For An Eye For An Eye with Stewed Rhubarb Press. Her work in theatre has included the one-woman show Within Sight (2020), Disciples (2023), and PALS (in development in 2026). She has released an EP and the album My Noise is Nothing with electronic musician Lord of the Isles. She holds an MA in Creative Writing: Poetry from the University of East Anglia.
Photograph of Ellen Renton by Douglas Tyrrell Bunge