Poetry readings / Spoken Word
Doors Open 6:30pm for 7:00pm start
£4-On the Door
Between Shadows #1 & #2 are a series of two events featuring Tohm Bakelas (Poet & Founder/Publisher of Between Shadows Press) featuring a number of Poets published by Between Shadows Press and invited Poets/Artists from the Bristol area and beyond.
Between Shadows Press, was founded in 2021 in Denville, New Jersey, USA and has published 117 publications and 17 broadsides.
More information about the press can be found here:
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9th-Kino
Reading order
Tom Sastry
Seth Guy
Lucia Sellars
Danny D Ford
Gwil James Thomas
Tohm Bakelas
FEATURED PERFORMERS:
TOM SASTRY:
“A magician of deadpan” – Hera Lindsay Bird
"Tom Sastry navigates the mysterious everyday...making friendships and love affairs new and strange" - Carol Ann Duffy
Tom Sastry once co-edited a book of poems about the future which turned into a book about the apocalypse because no-one could believe he would want to read anything remotely cheerful. He is currently working on a new collection called Life Expectancy Begins To Fall.
Like his actually-existing books it will be political, ironic, emotional, morbid and funny in all the wrong places. His pamphlet Complicity (2016) was a Poetry School Book of the Year and a Poetry Book Society pamphlet choice. His first collection A Man's House Catches Fire (2019) was highly commended in the Forward Prize and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize. His latest, You Have No Normal Country To Return To (2022) is also quite good (citation needed).
https://twitter.com/sastrytom?lang=en
You have no normal country to return to | Nine Arches Press
LUCIA SELLARS:
Lucia Sellars plays with text, fine art and film. Her videopoems have been screened in Europe, UK, USA, Australia and Russia. The State of Moving is her recent poetry collection. Her artwork can be seen at www.luciasellars.org.
Link to The State of Moving: (https://www.lulu.com/shop/lucia-sellars-and-michelle-moloney-king-and-beir-bua-press/the-state-of-moving/paperback/product-w8q5j6.html?page=1&pageSize=4)
Lucia Sellars
www.luciasellars.org
https://www.youtube.com/LuciaSellars
SETH GUY:
Seth Guy appropriates, reconfigures and juxtaposes materials to create playful performative works which explore the discourse between ear and eye.
Influenced by his interests in experimental fiction, art, and music, Seth's research investigates the intersections of shared language, of memory, and imagination, in which the acts of listening and visualising are investigated. Often collaborating and devising projects of a participatory and experiential nature, Seth makes both sonic art and visual art - sound compositions, performances, and collage - work which is often humorous, and occasionally disquieting.
Recent exhibition and publication of Guy’s work includes two audio works as part of the Futurology Kiosk in Weimar, Germany curated by Future Nostalgia FM (June ’22), a commission for six digital collages made in collaboration with covert performance group DROSS for But These Forms Need To Be Created at The KSCC in Ramallah, Palestine (Aug-Oct ’21), and an artist feature and cut-out page in Kolaj Magazine's World Collage Day 2021 Special Edition (May ’21).
Current collaborations include a text project with poet Mark Anthony Pearce composed of real- time aural and visual observations, and a sound and drawing performance currently in development with artist Shino Yanai.
www.sethguy.co.uk //
sethguy.bandcamp.com //
@aggregate.industries
DANNY D FORD:
Danny D. Ford’s poetry & artwork has appeared in numerous online and print titles including the currently available ‘Rum Lime Rum’, Laughing Ronin Press, and ‘Sucking on a Wet Pint’, Anxiety Press. The Unfolding Head is co-founder & compère of Dust Your Broom open-mic night & print collective Never Kill a Rainbow.
He can be found in Bergamo, Italy.
www.theunfoldinghead.com / @theunfoldinghead
GWIL JAMES THOMAS:
Gwil James Thomas is a poet, novelist and inept musician. He lives in his home town of Bristol, England but has also lived in London, Brighton and Spain. His most recent poetry chapbooks are The Labourer Poems (Hickathrift Press) and Part English, Part Welsh, Part Wolf (Scumbag Press). Other work can be found widely in print and also online.
Instagram: @gwiljamesthomas
TOHM BAKELAS:
Tohm Bakelas is a social worker in a psychiatric hospital. He was born in New Jersey, resides there, and will die there. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, zines, and online publications. He is the author of 24 chapbooks and several collections of poetry, including “No Destination” (Kung Fu Treachery Press, 2021) and “The Ants Crawl In Circles” (Whiskey City Press, 2022). He runs Between Shadows Press.
https://tohmbakelaspoetry.wordpress.com
Instagram: @flexyourhead
MARK ANTHONY PEARCE:
Mark Anthony Pearce lives and works as a Receptionist in Bristol. He is an author of eight books of Poetry, most recently ’The Pleasures of Work’ (March 2023, Between Shadows Press) His poetry has been published in University of Essex Poetry Journal, BS Poetry Magazine, Obscure Quarterly, CAPGRAS, Seppuku Quartley and online, Inefável, Coronaverses, Winamop, Horror Sleaze Trash, Duane’s PoeTree, Piker Press, Albany Poets, Ten Million Flies, Open Arts Forum, Cacti Fur, Cephalo Press, Punk Noir Magazine & Bold Monkey Review. A new book titled 'Lanyard' will be published in April by Two Key Customs
The Pleasures Of Work by Mark Anthony Pearce | between shadows press (bigcartel.com)
Mark Anthony Pearce - YouTube
JEREMY TOOMBS:
'Jeremy collects his global Dharma between the covers of a book, confining continents, confounding ages. Read it quickly, imbibe the rhythm of its cosmos, then back through again, slowly, learn its wisdom.' --Professor Duane Vorhees, University of Maryland
'A true beat poet. Captivating Cajun cadence, steeped in subtle soul and Mississippi metre.' --Byron Vincent
Illinois born, Kentucky raised, resident of Bristol, England, Jeremy Toombs has published two books of Poetry 'Ten Thousand Things' (Burning Eye Press, 2013) & 'Who Knows?' (Burning Eye Press, 2017). From 2010-2018 he helped run the now legendary Arts House Open Mic nights, in Stokes Croft.
Jeremy Toombs | Burning Eye Books (bigcartel.com)
