The Popogrou Collective Anthology London Launch
October Friday 18th 2024
OPEN Ealing, London. 7pm, Free.

OPEN Ealing Arts Centre, Unit 14 School Ln, Dickens Yard, London W5 2TD https://openealing.com/

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 will share short solo performances and readings. Featuring the anthologies editor Simon Tyrrell alongside Beverly Frydman, Laura Davis, Lucy Furlong, Martin Wakefield, Ailsa Holland, Bob T Bright, Jules Sprake, Cameron Wade, Patrick Cosgrove, Lisa Blackwell, Lori Wike, SJ Fowler

“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.”

This follows a launch at Kingston University the night before, October 17th, with details here.

The Popogrou Collective is Patrick Cosgrove, Laura Davis, Simon Tyrrell, Vicki Kaye, Bob T Bright, Lori Wike, Lucy Furlong, Martin Wakefield, Susie Campbell, Stephen Sunderland, Jules Sprake, Lisa Blackwell, Beverly Frydman, Mark Rutter, Ailsa Holland, Carolyn Hashimoto, Chris Kerr, Sylee Gore, Cameron Wade, SJ Fowler