On a boiling hot saturday evening an intimate group of attentive people took up a back room of atlas grinds, a cafe in Stamford Hill, open late to celebrate the launch of Jordi Larios' On Yellow Evenings. We crowded round a table after chatting for an hour and the formal divisions of readings were stripped away. It was so much better for this, memorable in the closeness and heat. It was like an evening from a film in the 70s, the street noise and humid thunderstorms at our backs, we listened to Jordi read from his poems brought together in English for the first time. The book is bilingual and takes from his four collections published in 1984 2006 2013 and 2020. He and I then had a discussion and like the rest of the evening this comfortably blended into a wider discussion with the friends present. A lovely evening celebrating a grand book from an excellent poet, these are the kind of things it is such a privilege to be invited to do - unique, memorable, generous. What better way to spend a saturday night. The volume is available here and recordings below of Jordi’s reading and our discussion. https://www.fumdestampa.com/shop/p/on-yellow-evenings