A event held at L'Étoile Studio on Thursday 27th March. The event starts at 19:30.
(IMAGE CREDIT: SETH GUY)
GEOFFREY BREEZE:
Raised by Marxist revolutionaries in the badlands of south London, resentfully educated as a scholarship boy in a seedy public school. Graduating from builders' labourer to pioneer back street cannabis entrepreneur, gate crashing the antiques game, ascending to the chandeliered halls of London's finest antique fairs. An odyssey from the meanest of streets to the squares and crescents of bourgeois Bath.
Geoffrey Breeze has more insights, quotes and enquiries than Wikipedia. His poems swagger across seven decades, through the decline of empire and industrialisation, confronting crime, pop culture, computers and culture clashes then sharing heartbreakingly tender love poems and a direct face off with mortality.
Dropping the jaws of Gen Z, engaging academics and beguiling middle England, his compelling delivery and powerful stage presence sell out every performance.
Poetry? He'll give you poetry!
LUCIA SELLARS:
Lucia Sellars is a poet, an environmental scientist and a quiet observer. She lives in the UK. She published a poetry pamphlet at 18, after winning the Premio Joven Contest in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. She has also been published in small magazines such as The Response (Fabrica Art Gallery – Brighton), Cronopis (Barcelona) and Alba (London). She started to perform in Oxford in 2014 at The Catweazle and was part of Poetry Can F* Off, by Heathcote Williams in 2015. Her video poems have been screened internationally. She writes in both English and Spanish. More recently, her poetry collection 'The State of Moving' was published by Beir Bua Press in 2022. You can find more of her work here: www.luciasellars.org
A.C. BEVAN:
A. C. Bevan is a local poet whose first full collection 'Poundlandia' was published by Mica Press in October 2024. His work has appeared in numerous literary magazines, newspapers & anthologies in the UK, Europe & the US; on the Science Museum website on National Poetry Day 2021; as a poster on a Channel Island bus; & most recently on Radio 4’s Poetry Please Shipping Forecast centenary special.
NAOMI MADLOCK:
Naomi Madlock is a chronically ill poet and occasional artist. She performs regularly around Bristol, and spends most of her time reading in cafés. Her work is featured or forthcoming in Terrain, Anti-Heroin Chic, Kingfisher Magazine, The Shore, LEON Literary Review, and others. At the University of Exeter, she was awarded the Gamini Salgado prize for her dissertation collection She Writes in Golden Ink. Her work draws inspiration from nature to articulate themes of stagnation, resilience and surrender. You can find her on Instagram @naomimadlockpoet
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
GEOFFREY BREEZE:
Raised by Marxist revolutionaries in the badlands of south London, resentfully educated as a scholarship boy in a seedy public school. Graduating from builders' labourer to pioneer back street cannabis entrepreneur, gate crashing the antiques game, ascending to the chandeliered halls of London's finest antique fairs. An odyssey from the meanest of streets to the squares and crescents of bourgeois Bath.
Geoffrey Breeze has more insights, quotes and enquiries than Wikipedia. His poems swagger across seven decades, through the decline of empire and industrialisation, confronting crime, pop culture, computers and culture clashes then sharing heartbreakingly tender love poems and a direct face off with mortality.
Dropping the jaws of Gen Z, engaging academics and beguiling middle England, his compelling delivery and powerful stage presence sell out every performance.
Poetry? He'll give you poetry!
LUCIA SELLARS:
Lucia Sellars is a poet, an environmental scientist and a quiet observer. She lives in the UK. She published a poetry pamphlet at 18, after winning the Premio Joven Contest in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. She has also been published in small magazines such as The Response (Fabrica Art Gallery – Brighton), Cronopis (Barcelona) and Alba (London). She started to perform in Oxford in 2014 at The Catweazle and was part of Poetry Can F* Off, by Heathcote Williams in 2015. Her video poems have been screened internationally. She writes in both English and Spanish. More recently, her poetry collection 'The State of Moving' was published by Beir Bua Press in 2022. You can find more of her work here: www.luciasellars.org
A.C. BEVAN:
A. C. Bevan is a local poet whose first full collection 'Poundlandia' was published by Mica Press in October 2024. His work has appeared in numerous literary magazines, newspapers & anthologies in the UK, Europe & the US; on the Science Museum website on National Poetry Day 2021; as a poster on a Channel Island bus; & most recently on Radio 4’s Poetry Please Shipping Forecast centenary special.
NAOMI MADLOCK:
Naomi Madlock is a chronically ill poet and occasional artist. She performs regularly around Bristol, and spends most of her time reading in cafés. Her work is featured or forthcoming in Terrain, Anti-Heroin Chic, Kingfisher Magazine, The Shore, LEON Literary Review, and others. At the University of Exeter, she was awarded the Gamini Salgado prize for her dissertation collection She Writes in Golden Ink. Her work draws inspiration from nature to articulate themes of stagnation, resilience and surrender. You can find her on Instagram @naomimadlockpoet
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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