A event held at L'Étoile Studio on Today. The event starts at 19:30.
(IMAGE CREDIT: Seth Guy)
An evening of Poetry and Spoken Word featuring:
ALEX KERA:
Alex Kera is a poet based in South East London. English is her fourth language. She has published two pamphlets, Vestibular Training with Bored Wolves and Guidance to Translating Sound on Paper (after Pitman's), a phonetic poetry pamphlet, with Zimzalla.
Her latest poetry pamphlet will be published in Spring 2025 by Antiphony press.
MARIUS GROSE:
Marius studied fine art at Bristol Polytechnic graduating in 1981 with a BA Hons degree in sculpture. He then made a career shift into broadcast television, becoming a freelance editor working on factual entertainment shows, documentaries and feature films.
Marius has written screenplays for film, television and stage plays. Since 2016 he has been writing poetry and reading his work at open mic nights and online. He has had poems published in the literary arts journal Dream Catcher,192 Ezine, Allegro Poetry, The Ekphrastic Review, Dreich and The Storms. Marius was shortlisted for The White Review’s annual poetry competition 2023.
Marius’s poetry films and photographs can be found at photography.mariusgrose.co.uk
NELL OSBORNE:
Nell Osborne published The Canine Redeemer Has Entered The Bungalow in 2021 with Just Not. Her most recent pamphlet, Thank You For Everything, was published by Monitor Books in 2024: ‘Nell Osborne makes wisdom blush and wit look like slapstick, and it all seems possible, scuffed and crude and stinging’ (Luke Roberts). Her debut novel is forthcoming with MOIST in September 2025. She is currently based in Devon.
IAN IRWIN:
Ian Irwin has been reading his work at Bristol’s poetry open mic events with absolutely no consistency for over a decade now. He was selected as an Out-Spoken Press Emerging Poet in 2022 and his poetry has been published in The Poetry Review, Propel, berlin lit, Carmen et Error, The Alchemy Spoon and Trasna among others. He is also published in various anthologies including Poetry Pulpit, Propel and the forthcoming Night Terrors from Acid Bath Publishing.
-For more information regarding Kertecz Press follow us on Instagram @kertecz_press
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
An evening of Poetry and Spoken Word featuring:
ALEX KERA:
Alex Kera is a poet based in South East London. English is her fourth language. She has published two pamphlets, Vestibular Training with Bored Wolves and Guidance to Translating Sound on Paper (after Pitman's), a phonetic poetry pamphlet, with Zimzalla.
Her latest poetry pamphlet will be published in Spring 2025 by Antiphony press.
MARIUS GROSE:
Marius studied fine art at Bristol Polytechnic graduating in 1981 with a BA Hons degree in sculpture. He then made a career shift into broadcast television, becoming a freelance editor working on factual entertainment shows, documentaries and feature films.
Marius has written screenplays for film, television and stage plays. Since 2016 he has been writing poetry and reading his work at open mic nights and online. He has had poems published in the literary arts journal Dream Catcher,192 Ezine, Allegro Poetry, The Ekphrastic Review, Dreich and The Storms. Marius was shortlisted for The White Review’s annual poetry competition 2023.
Marius’s poetry films and photographs can be found at photography.mariusgrose.co.uk
NELL OSBORNE:
Nell Osborne published The Canine Redeemer Has Entered The Bungalow in 2021 with Just Not. Her most recent pamphlet, Thank You For Everything, was published by Monitor Books in 2024: ‘Nell Osborne makes wisdom blush and wit look like slapstick, and it all seems possible, scuffed and crude and stinging’ (Luke Roberts). Her debut novel is forthcoming with MOIST in September 2025. She is currently based in Devon.
IAN IRWIN:
Ian Irwin has been reading his work at Bristol’s poetry open mic events with absolutely no consistency for over a decade now. He was selected as an Out-Spoken Press Emerging Poet in 2022 and his poetry has been published in The Poetry Review, Propel, berlin lit, Carmen et Error, The Alchemy Spoon and Trasna among others. He is also published in various anthologies including Poetry Pulpit, Propel and the forthcoming Night Terrors from Acid Bath Publishing.
-For more information regarding Kertecz Press follow us on Instagram @kertecz_press
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
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