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| SJ Fowler and Jules Sprake |
Jules Sprake and SJ Fowler
Tom Jenks
Peter Dunkley and Ian Brady
Matt Sokulsky
Marcia Knight Latter
Julia Rose Lewis
Safia Kamel
Kingston University Town House
Courtyard Space
12th December 2023
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| Matt Sokulsky |
The game of games, the great game, the beautiful ball game - a night of weird and heartfelt literary celebration! Writers of all kits shared poetry, fiction, non-fiction and performance on the world’s most popular sport, in all its facets, from the abstract to the obvious. With local and visiting writers alongside students and staff of Kingston University, it was a memorable night in the RIBA award winning Town House in Kingston.
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| Marcia Knight Latter and Julia Rose Lewis |
This event will also saw the launch of the collaborative poetry pamphlet, by Sprake and Fowler, A Seasons of Seasons from Sampson Low publishing.
https://sampsonlow.co/2023/12/12/a-seasons-of-seasons-sj-fowler-jules-sprake/
A Seasons of Seasons
A unique document in experimental poetry that celebrates the bone deep passion and pain football inflicts upon its followers. Written ostensibly to follow the turbulent 2022 / 2023 premier league season from the perspective of two lifelong fans of Crystal Palace and Everton respectively, A Seasons of Seasons then spirals out in the mass language ether of the world’s most popular game. Unusual for it’s methodology as well as its content, dragging in British poetry revival stalwarts alongside Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roy Hodgson and Sean Dyche, this book is a fusion of poetry, found text, collage, illustration, redaction and ground up collaboration.
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| Tom Jenks |
“Football, like poetry, is an artform that not so much encourages obsession as demands it. The back and forth between Fowler and Sprake perfectly captures this baroque particularity. Talking about football with a poet is usually like talking about tofu with a mountain lion: they know what it is, but they don’t see how it applies to them. So it’s a pleasure to read A Seasons of Seasons, a text, at last, for the intersection of the Venn diagram, perfect for a cold, wet Tuesday night in Stoke.”
Tom Jenks
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| Ian Brady and Peter Dunkley |
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| Julia Rose Lewis |
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| Safia Kamel |
