Kingston University Press : Popogrou Collective Anthology
October Thursday 17th 2024
Kingston University Town House : Courtyard Space
Penrhyn Rd, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EQ.
(The Courtyard space is located in the Town House building, beneath the main library, behind the main reception desk)
The Popogrou Collective is a group of poets, based in the UK and across the world, whose work celebrates innovation and playfulness in poetry and literature, through all understandings of what that medium is - from the textual, visual, performative and collaborative. Featuring multiple Kingston University alumni, this event celebrates the launch of the first Popogrou anthology, which brings samples together from 19 of it’s members and is published by Kingston University’s own press. For this special event, 14 of those poets in the book shared short solo performances and readings. Featuring the anthologies editor Simon Tyrrell alongside Lori Wike, Vicki Kaye, Bob T Bright, Lucy Furlong, Martin Wakefield, Patrick Cosgrove, Laura Davis, Susie Campbell, Stephen Sunderland, Cameron Wade, Lisa Blackwell, SJ Fowler tyrrellknot.bigcartel.com/product/popogrou-anthology
“This anthology showcases innovative poetry practice at the growing edge of contemporary literature. It gathers language art, textual and visual poetry from nineteen active members of Popogrou – a worldwide collective emerging from writer and artist SJ Fowler’s online Potential Poetries workshop programme, established during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. As we welcome all concepts of poetry and methods of making it, the variety of work reflects the expansive ideas of poetry and literature enabled and explored by the collective. Generous, inclusive, unconventional and celebratory, it is a volume that honours the fellowship of a distinctively creative and productive collective of writers and artists, whose encouragement, support and insight continues to contribute to the evolution of everyone’s personal and collaborative practice.”
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This event also saw the launch of the latest Sampson Low Student Pamphlet Publication - Danica Ignacio’s MORAL CAVITY
“Moral cavity is the result of looking at the otherwise regular parts of life until they warp in on themselves. It is a test on how far away something can get while still maintaining its identity and a measurement of how long it takes to make the ordinary unrecognisable. Moral cavity reflects on perspective and definition through a collection of visual and textual poetry that mirror the feeling of a growing bed of bacteria in the back of your mouth, except there is no bacteria and there is no mouth, just you.”
