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| "Mass Sokulsky" by the IPLA Collective Eleanor Wilders, Danica Ignacio, Cameron Wade |
Writers Kingston event #92
Poem Brut October Thursday 9th 2025
Kingston University Town House
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| Julia Rose Lewis |
Stephen Sunderland
Nikolai Duffy
Miya
Nadia Jordan, Mia Hale-McLeod and Cerys McVea (Students of the ‘Experiments and Innovations’ module, Kingston University)
Julia Rose Lewis
IPLA Collective: Eleanor Wilders, Danica Ignacio, Cameron Wade
Popogrou Collective: Bob T Bright, Vicki Kaye, Patrick Cosgrove and Simon Tyrrell
Lily Ferret
Bella Weerasinghe
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| Nadia Jordan, Mia Hale-McLeod and Cerys McVea |
A truly unique evening of expansive literary performances involving staff, students and alumni of Kingston University alongside visiting writers, artists and musicians from across the UK and beyond. Poem Brut is an event series that embraces aesthetic possibility and all possible artistic poetic methods of writing, making and presenting poetry.
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| SJ Fowler and Miya |
MIYA visited from Tokyo, presenting improvisation, while Stephen Sunderland launched his ground-breaking surrealist novel The Cinema Beneath the Lake. Both the Popogrou and IPLA collectives gave us lively collaborative performances while students from the ‘Experiments and Innovations’ module at Kingston University unwrapped a new live work. An energising evening of live literature, celebrating originality in all its forms. No wonder the Writers Kingston community continues to flourish as it nears 100 events since its inception in 2017.
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| Stephen Sunderland |
The Cinema Beneath the Lake by Stephen Sunderland is a secret history of Surrealism, drawn from the hidden life of the Muse. Suzanne dreams her own revolution, summoning a band of impossible adventurers, she journeys toward the “Méduse” — the cinema beneath Lake Pavin — which will project their film-dreams to the clouds as riddling clues to our resolution in the world.
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| Nikolai Duffy |
Common, by Nikolai Duffy, tells the story of Robert, who in the aftermath of his aunt's death, travels from his home in Manchester to Hampshire to settle her affairs. In her house, faced with the left-behind detritus of an eccentric life, Robert makes the decision to leave his family and build a hut on the local common. This is a novel that explores death, memory, the long impact of brutality in childhood, and Robert's aunt's insistence that a person should live an 'unroofed life'.
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| Popogrou Collective: Bob T Bright, Vicki Kaye, Patrick Cosgrove and Simon Tyrrell |
The Popogrou Collective is a group of poets whose work celebrates innovative writing practice at the cutting edge of contemporary literature. This collaborative jumble of creatives gather together language art, textual and visual poetry from nineteen active members. Popogrou, a worldwide collective, emerged from writer and artist SJ Fowler’s online Potential Poetries workshop programme, established during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.
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| Bella Weerasinghe |
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| Lily Ferret |
