Poem Brut : phase 4, 2022 to 2023

With thanks to Serendip Studios and Arts Council England, and the hundreds of poets who have supported the project! Below is our fourth ‘season’, with over a dozen events (documented with videos), multiple exhibitions, happenings all across the UK, multiple workshop series and our publication series on 3am magazine to boot! A great year, full of community, experiment, collaboration and play. More to come in the future.

Poem Brut IV - July 2nd 2023
at Hundred Years Gallery, London

On a summer night in Hoxton, 13 poets shared 7 performances of expansive, engaging, amusing and daring poetry performance for the 8th event of the 4th season of Poem Brut. Highlights included knitting, shredding, burnt toast, a Devon seagull and a Bird King. Please watch all the performances.

Poem Brut IV :
June 3rd 2023
at Open Ealing

A dozen brilliant new performances celebrating poets, artists, writers and musicians, exploring experimentation and playfulness in live poetry in one of West London most brilliant venues.

With twelve performances by Agata Maslowska, Safia Kamel, Julia Rose Lewis, Rona Luo, Paul Hawkins, Michael Sutton, Dan Power, Cameron Wade, Matt Sokulsky, Mark Rutter, Richard Marshall plus the Popogrou collective (Vicki Kaye, Bev Frydman, Simon Tyrrell, Bob T Bright).

This event also saw the launch of the fourth publication in SJ Fowler’s weirdpoetry series - ‘Recently Attracted Reality Influencers : selected memes and screenshots’ - from Overground Underground Press.

Poem Brut Exhibition IV
We Take Writing For Granted :
May 24th - June 30th / A Second Step Wellbeing College, Bristol

Poem Brut IV at Para-ability
March 23rd 2023
Knights Park, Kingston School of Art

Performers included Martin Wakefield, Julia Rose Lewis, Jieyi Sun, Alice Gale Feeny, Katie Hall, Cameron Wade, Matt Sokulsky, Oscar Rodriguez, Jessica Pritchard, SJ Fowler, Rhian Parker.

Poem Brut IV :
Para-ability :
An Exhibition
March 28th to April 14th
Kingston School of Art.

Kingston School of Art. Grange Rd, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2QJ

A dynamic exhibition of new visual art and poetry made by staff, students, those local to the University as well as artists from around the UK. On the theme of Para-ability, this explores (but is not limited to) disability, neurodiversity, mental health and chronic illness and in all the complexity of those issues, celebrating the ambiguous, quixotic and expansive in reflecting the necessity of the theme. Celebrating too a community that inhabits Writers Kingston, the Writing Cultures group and the University in general, exhibitors are listed below!

To watch all the performances from the special view opening event, visit https://www.writerskingston.com/paraability/

• Jieyi Sun, Albert Pellicer, Sara Upstone, Cameron Wade and Stanimir Dimitrov, Simon Tyrrell and Vicki Kaye, Virna Teixeira, Bob Modem and Martin Wakefield, Katie Hall, Patrick Cosgrove, Julia Rose Lewis, Kayona Daley, Alice Gale Feeny and Nicola Field

The exhibition is curated by SJ Fowler and conceived by Kate Scott and Sara Upstone.

Poem Brut at Rich Mix
March 18th 2023

Returning to the home of Poem Brut in the city, Rich Mix, this event affirmed Poem Brut’s offering an alternative understanding of 21st century literature, as it has done since 2017, to a generous and lively audience.

Poem Brut IV :
at Hundred Years Gallery : January 29th 2023

9 Brilliant new performances celebrating poets, artists, writers and musicians, exploring neurodiversity and internationalism in one of East London most brilliant venues. Performers from Japan, USA, Belgium, New Zealand joined thos from across the UK on a memorable sunday afternoon marking the first Poem Brut event of 2023.

Poem Brut :
Rich Mix
November 19th 2022

An extraordinary event with 12 performances to nearly 100 people marking the return of Poem Brut to London! Held at the home of Poem Brut in the city, Rich Mix, this event affirmed Poem Brut’s offering an alternative understanding of 21st century literature, as it has done since 2017, to a generous and lively audience. A memorable night, with works documented on video below.

Poem Brut IV : at Kingston University Town House : Oct Tues 18th 2022

Visit https://www.writerskingston.com/poembrut22/ for all the videos and performances! Nearly 20 poets descended on Kingston University for an explorative, playful, experimental evening of new live works from literary artists from across the UK. Poem Brut has been pioneering live literature sensitive to the hand-made and neurologically diverse since 2017 and this one night fest was a memorable instalment in its history as a project

Poem Brut at St John’s on Bethnal Green - celebrating Fictean Landscape by Richard Marshall

A remarkable exhibition by Poem Brut pioneer Richard Marshall, painter and poet, with special view events on November Friday 11th 2022, November Friday 25th 2022, January 28th 2023 and February 9th 2023.

Performers from across London, and the UK, descend on the beautiful East London church designed by John Soanes to share performances responding to the poem brut exhibition by Richard Marshall in four events over four Friday nights crossing 2022 into 2023.