Writers Kingston event #68 : Poem Brut at Kingston University Town House on November Tuesday 14th 2023
An explorative, playful evening of new live literary works, from readings to performance, from the vocal to the physical. Poem Brut has been pioneering live literature sensitive to the hand-made and improvised and this was a memorable instalment of the project with over 17 poets performing rapid fire.
With performances by Cameron Wade, Matt Sokulsky, James Caley, Holly Appleby, Jessica Pritchard, Monica Nathalal, Oscar Rodriguez, Duya Ribeiro Felber, Bella Weerasinghe, Danica Ignacio, Safia Kamel, Madelaine Culver, Sophia Mold, Emma Mitchell, Simon Tyrrell, SJ Fowler and James Knight.
This event was also a launch for this extraordinary anthology, edited James Knight https://www.steelincisors.com/s/stories/seeing-in-tongues-an-anthology-of-visual-poetry The 350-page book includes pieces made from physical materials, digitally constructed work, and hybrids of the two, and encompasses collage, cut-up, erasure, asemic writing, painting, photography, glitch, drawing, aleatory processes, and numerous other techniques.