Spaces of Significance

What spaces are significant to you?

After over 4 years of producing poetry events and workshops, Off The Chest bring you their inaugural anthology, Spaces of Significance. Comprising works ranging from best-selling authors to the newest cutting-edge voices in the UK poetry scene, this captivating series of poems traverses a wide range of spaces, exploring themes of nostalgia, joy, grief, and much more.

From the girls' club toilets to a grandfather's closet, a London bus to the UN Buffer Zone, dive into poetry that illuminates a diverse series of locations, explored through evocative imagery, storytelling and humour. Includes poems from Dean Atta, Molly Naylor, Laurie Bolger, James McDermott, Jay Mitra, as well as Off The Chest founders Ella Dorman-Gajic, Iftikhar Latif, plus many, many more.

Published in association with Broken Sleep Books and Bad Betty Press.