A Literary Event - Celebrating Sampson Low
December Thursday 3rd 2020 at The Kingston Quaker Centre
With readings and performances by Maria Celina Val, Silje Ree, SJ Fowler, Susie Campbell, Patrick Cosgrove and Eley Williams.
Four authors from the Sampson Low list were be joined by guest readers for a night of poetry and experimental performance in the heart of Kingston-upon-Thames. The first event out of national lockdown for Writers Kingston, the event will saw the launch of Maria Celina Val’s Children draw fivefold stars and SJ Fowler / Bard Torgersen’s Crowfinger.
Sampson Low has been publishing for more than 200 years and in the last half-decade they, led by editor and artist Alban Low, have been key in making Writers Kingston, and the literary community of the whole Kingston area, far more galvanised, enthused and exciting. The remarkable selflessness and generosity of the press has helped poets and authors realise and develop their work, firmly rooted in the local literary scene and contextualised by a truly amazing history which elevates all those associated with Sampson Low. This event celebrates the press, the work of Alban Low, and the myriad writers featured on the SLL list. www.sampsonlow.co
For more about our student poetry pamphlet series www.writerskingston.com/sampsonlow
For more about the press - In 1793, the year when the French Revolution broke out in France, a young printer in London named Sampson Low published a beautifully illustrated prayer book and the first of many novels by famous writers. He was a man of remarkable energy setting up his own printing and publishing company in Soho, but sadly he died in 1800 leaving his business to his son Sampson who was only three years old. When the young boy grew up he worked for Longmans the publisher before re-establishing his father’s family name again in London’s Lambs Conduit Street together with a handsome bookshop and library…. https://sampsonlow.co/about/