Book Celebration: Dance-Floor Romance by Chris Tse

Unfolding in the strobe-lit landscape of the club, this latest collection from Chris Tse reflects on joy, nostalgia and legacy - and what it means to make a vocation of vulnerability. Words hit the page like light on a mirrorball as Tse takes us from come-up to comedown, between the spotlight and the shadowy corners, penning both sad-bangers and straight-up bangers that are generous, alive and shot through with the magnetic urgency of a club classic.
But when the lights come up after the last dance, how do we brace ourselves to face the world outside? Dance-Floor Romance is poetry that seeks answers from the art we turn to in times of uncertainty, that 'Holds the present as much as it / holds a whisper of the future', and amplifies it. Someone hand Tse the AUX cord.

Please join us, and Maia Armistead, Helen Rickerby and Joseph Trinidad, in celebration of Chris' latest book.