MOLD – Oscar Rodriguez

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With a growing stain, Mold follows the downward spiral of sexual addiction and its consequent ruin on the self. Fuelling the descent through abstraction, constraint poetry and visual stimulation; there is no denial of degeneracy. Laid between confessional and fictive, Mold is telling of a new wave of the sexual revolution. So, give in and melt your brain.

MOLD
Oscar Rodriguez
Published February 2024
ISBN 978-1-915505-33-0
A6 Size,
16 printed pages,
Colour
Print run of 200
Writers Centre Kingston Chapbook #20
SLB0246
Price – £2.60
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Oscar Rodriguez (he/they) is a Salvadoran American poet based in Kingston. Avid writer since childhood, his migration to London for studies was a manifestation of resilience. Their poetry reflects on trauma, religion, identity, and queerness. He collaborates with Writers Kingston frequently and in the past with Spotify Radar. With their debut Sampson Low pamphlet, Mold, and upcoming performance at the National Gallery’s Lates, he is always exploring poetry and its many forms.

BEES – Jessica Pritchard

February 20, 2024February 20, 2024albanlow Tags: Jessica Pritchard, Writer's Centre Kingston Sampson Low Poetry Pamphlet series, Writers Centre Kingston Chapbook Series Leave a comment

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A young woman stands alone in the fierce aftermath of grief. After the sudden death of her father, she is forced towards the impossible task of moving forward. Bees explores the chaos of bereavement through a blend of poetry and prose, capturing the most poignant and personal moments of a young woman in pain. Part memoir, part fiction, Bees is a love letter to the children who survived.

BEES
Jessica Pritchard
Published February 2024
ISBN 978-1-915505-34-7
A6 Size,
16 printed pages,
Colour
Print run of 200
Writers Centre Kingston Chapbook #21
SLB0247
Price – £2.60
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Jessica Pritchard is a screenwriter and poet studying at Kingston University. Jessica has a particular interest in writing about the human condition, through film and poetry. Her poetry characterises the experiences of childhood bereavement and its difficult connection to womanhood. Jessica has an upcoming published work in Heroica magazine, and often collaborates with Writers Kingston. She has an upcoming performance at the National Gallery Lates event in March.

A Seasons of Seasons – SJ Fowler & Jules Sprake

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A unique document in experimental poetry that celebrates the bone deep passion and pain football inflicts upon its followers. Written ostensibly to follow the turbulent 2022 / 2023 premier league season from the perspective of two lifelong fans of Crystal Palace and Everton respectively, A Seasons of Seasons then spirals out in the mass language ether of the world’s most popular game. Unusual for it’s methodology as well as its content, dragging in British poetry revival stalwarts alongside Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roy Hodgson and Sean Dyche, this book is a fusion of poetry, found text, collage, illustration, redaction and ground up collaboration.

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SJ Fowler & Jules Sprake
Published October 2023
ISBN 978-1-915505-31-6
A5 Size
36 printed pages
Colour
Cimera Series #6
SLB0244
Print run of 200
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“Football, like poetry, is an artform that not so much encourages obsession as demands it. The back and forth between Fowler and Sprake perfectly captures this baroque particularity. Talking about football with a poet is usually like talking about tofu with a mountain lion: they know what it is, but they don’t see how it applies to them. So it’s a pleasure to read A Seasons of Seasons, a text, at last, for the intersection of the Venn diagram, perfect for a cold, wet Tuesday night in Stoke.”
Tom Jenks

INVITATION TO ELSEWHERE – Katerina Koulouri and Alban Low

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Katerina Koulouri and Alban Low, poet and artist respectively, first worked together as part of the
Camarade project organised by poet and curator SJ Fowler in October 2023. The Camarade series explores collaboration between poets, taking the form of events which pair writers to produce and premiere new collaborative poems or artworks, to be performed live.

This pamphlet is part of that collaboration and performance.

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INVITATION TO ELSEWHERE
Katerina Koulouri and Alban Low
Published October 2023
ISBN 978-1-915505-32-3
A6 Size
16 printed pages
Colour
Camarade Poetry Series 1
SLB0245
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Bouquet of Goodbyes – Laurence Sullivan

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Goodbyes. They can be casual, bittersweet, celebratory, emotional, and sometimes even final. Bouquet of Goodbyes is an assortment of stories reflecting on that theme, some new, others previously published and prize-winning – appearing in places like Popshot Quarterly, FlashFlood and Foliate Oak Literary Magazine.

As runner-up in the Wicked Young Writer Awards: Gregory Maguire Award for Fiction, Laurence Sullivan has appeared in over 70 publications, such as Londonist, The List and NHK World-Japan. He became inspired to start writing during his studies at the universities of Kent, Utrecht, and Birmingham – after being immersed in all forms of literature from across the globe and enjoying every moment of it. In 2023, he completed his PhD at Northumbria University, analysing literary portrayals of women’s domestic medicine during the eighteenth century.

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Bouquet of Goodbyes
Laurence Sullivan
Published October 2023
ISBN 978-1-915505-29-3
A6 Size
16 printed pages
Colour
Illustrated by Alban Low
Design by Carina Low
Chapbook 47
SLB0242
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Walking 2023

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This anthology is published in support of Sound Walk September 2023. Cheryl Markosky and Tony Horitz, walk · listen · create’s two Writers-in-Residence, chose the theme of Walking A/way, that’s Walking away or Walking a way, for this year’s competition. Entrants were invited to submit poems or stories; they could be fictional, factual or memoir, and were limited to a maximum of just 250 words.

The winning poems were judged by Ralph Hoyte (poet, soundwalks producer) and Tony Horitz. The winning stories were judged by S. A. Greene (author) and Cheryl Markosky.

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Walking 2023
An Anthology of Writing inspired by “Walking A/way” Sound Walk September 2023
Ricky Abbott, Shani Cadwallender, Kevin Cheeseman, Lorraine Collins, Chris Cuninghame, Amelia Hodsdon, Rosaleen Lynch, Jan Martin, Isabella Mead, Eilín de Paor, and Richard Westcott.
Published 2023
ISBN 978-1-915505-30-9
A6 Size
28 printed pages
Colour
Walk Listen Create Chapbook 3
SLB0243
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Canopy: Secrets of the trees

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This anthology is published to coincide with the Urban Tree Festival in May 2023. The pieces included were selected from over 160 entries to a competition run over the winter months of 2022/3. Entrants were asked to write about “Secrets of the Trees” as poems or stories in 250 words or fewer.

The theme of “Secrets of the Trees” was set by our previous winners: M.L. Grieve for poetry and Joanna Walworth for prose. They chose the theme as they felt that “Our urban trees have stood central to the story of urban development and urban living for centuries. What human stories have they witnessed? Time to give the urban trees a voice!”

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Canopy: Secrets of the trees
An Anthology of Writing for the Urban Tree Festival 2023
Galia Admoni, Julian Bishop, John Bowen, Adam Elms, Em Gray, Lizzie Gwinnell, Andrew Halsall Smith, Rayna Haralambieva, Cheryl Markosky, Arthur Sparrow, Penny Walker, and Kyra Williams.
Published 2023
ISBN 978-1-915505-17-0
A6 Size
24 printed pages
Colour
Museum of Walking Chapbook 13
SLB0230
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The Book of Matthew – Matthew J. Sokulsky

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In Matthew Sokulsky’s brilliant debut publication, religion remains unsimple. Revealed in a suite of poems as strange, jarring and complex as its namesake. Questioning, while enveloping religious realities, this booklet of surreal admiration celebrates the essentially human, eccentric and faith-ish in poems from a new voice in Australian and British literature.

The Book of Matthew
Matthew J. Sokulsky
Published March 2023
ISBN 978-1-915505-16-3
A6 Size,
16 printed pages,
Colour
Print run of 200
Writers Centre Kingston Chapbook #19
SLB0229
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Matthew Sokulsky is poet and writer, born in Muswellbrook, New South Wales in 1999. He currently lives in London, having studied at Kingston University and … he has been commissioned by The National Gallery and this is his debut publication.

I Smell Metal – Cameron Wade

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I Smell Metal
Cameron Wade
Published March 2023
ISBN 978-1-915505-15-6
A6 Size,
16 printed pages,
Colour
Print run of 200
Writers Centre Kingston Chapbook #18
SLB0228
Price – £2.60
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Designed to evidence the remarkable contemporary and innovative poetry being written by current and recent Kingston University Creative Writing students, this series of beautifully designed pamphlets each features a suite of poems, most often on one theme or in one style, by a solo author. The series mark the first publications of many poets who are very likely to be significant presences on the UK scene and beyond in the coming years.
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Emptpy Poems – Martin Wakefield

December 6, 2022December 6, 2022albanlow Tags: Chapbook, Emptpy Poems, Martin Wakefield, popogrou Leave a comment

“Martin Wakefield’s ravishing sequence of ‘Emptpy Poems’ is elegant, spare and haunting. And haunted. The spectral traces of Apollinaire’s poems are still just visible beneath Wakefield’s enigmatic creation. There seems to be a strange attraction between the poems on the surface and the ghost poems beneath such that, in places, the surface poems shiver into italics to mirror the font change of the trace poems. Sometimes this becomes an ‘interference’ caused by the spectral poems, mysteriously pushing at words within the poems above, or pulling them into new spellings, compressions and splittings. This resonates powerfully with the operations of the mind itself and how it responds to the energies and interruptions of its memories, its subconscious, and its physical embodiment, as well as reflecting on the way all language is similarly shaped and inhabited by ghosts.”
— Susie Campbell

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Emptpy Poems
Martin Wakefield
Published December 2022
ISBN 978-1-915505-14-9
A6 Size
28 printed pages
Colour
Chapbook 47
SLB0227
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