The White Review presents a reading by poet Matthew Gregory and a reading and Q&A with Italian novelist Francesco Pacifico in the gallery at Foyles bookshop on Charing Cross Road, London, from 6.30-8.30pm on 23 January.

There will be drinks. Please RSVP to editors@thewhitereview.org to reserve a seat at the event.

Matthew Gregory was born in 1984. He received an Eric Gregory award in 2010, with poems previously appearing in the LRB, Poetry Review, Poetry London and on BBC Radio. His poems appear in The White Review No. 9. 

Francesco Pacifico is the author of The Story of My Purity, published by Hamish Hamilton in 2012. He has written for a number of Italian publications, as well as for Rolling Stone and GQ, and has translated into Italian the works of Henry Miller, Allen Ginsberg, Dave Eggers, Will Eisner, and more. He lives in Rome. Read an extract from his story published in The White Review No. 9 here.