Writers Kingston Student Showcase 2023

Matt Sokulsky

SJ Fowler - Introduction
Poets
Rhian Parker
Richard Howson
Marcia Knight Latter
Saloni Lodha
Oscar Rodriguez
Jessica Pritchard
Isaac Blake
Safia Kamel
Stan Dimitrov
Matt Sokulsky
Cameron Wade

March 14th 2023
Waterstones Bookshop, Kingston-upon-Thames

Cameron Wade

A showcase event, bringing the energy and innovation of Writers Kingston to a late night opening of the Bentall Centre’s Waterstones bookshop. This evening presented current Kingston students and recent alumni, together, each offering short readings and performances of poetry, exploring the range and possibility of contemporary literature. 

Safia Kamel

There were be performances by Cameron Wade and Matt Sokulsky who launched their debut publications with Sampson Low, part of our longstanding student poetry pamphlet series.

Richard Howson

In Matthew Sokulsky’s brilliant debut publication, religion remains unsimple. Revealed in a suite of poems as strange, jarring and complex as its namesake. Questioning, while enveloping religious realities, this booklet of surreal admiration celebrates the essentially human, eccentric and faith-ish in poems from a new voice in Australian and British literature. Matthew Sokulsky is poet and writer, born in Muswellbrook, New South Wales in 1999. He currently lives in London, having studied at Kingston University and … he has been commissioned by The National Gallery and this is his debut publication.
www.sampsonlow.co/wck-pamphlets

Stan Dimitrov

Designed to evidence the remarkable contemporary and innovative poetry being written by current and recent Kingston University Creative Writing students, this series of beautifully designed pamphlets each features a suite of poems, most often on one theme or in one style, by a solo author. The series mark the first publications of many poets who are very likely to be significant presences on the UK scene and beyond in the coming years.

SJ Fowler

“Kingston University brings together students from all over the world, from as wide a range of backgrounds and cultures as can be found in the UK. It creates a community that cross pollinates influences and ideas, and this is inevitably reflected in the work the students create. The university does not get enough credit for this – it is, I have seen, a vibrant, harmonious environment where originality and difference can be transformed into exciting and innovative expression. The students are hungry for that which is innovative, that which allows them to express the true size and complexity of their experience and their community at the university. This series of poetry pamphlets reflects that. The work is utterly contemporary, it is exciting and energetic. It is, I hope, the best kind of representation of what Kingston University stands for – intelligent, unique and various in its character.”
Series editor, SJ Fowler
www.writerskingston.com

Rhian Parker

Saloni Lodha

Oscar Rodriguez

Jessica Pritchard

Isaac Blake

Marcia Knight Latter