Celebrating Bob T Bright and assorted book launches : an event at Torriano Meeting House
August Saturday 15th 2026 : 2pm doors, Free
99 Torriano Avenue. Kentish Town. London. NW5 2RX
torriano.org/whats-on/poetry/celebrating-bob-t-bright
Marking the launch of Bob T. Bright's selected poems - Scatty from Cincinatti from Kingston University Press - which draws together over fifty years of writing, this event will see readings of his works by over a dozen poets in a celebration of Bright and his singular output. A true original, a beloved character and a mainstay of the British experimental poetry scene, Bright's work is remarkable for its playful originality and it's methodological breadth, taking in many conceptions of what a poem is and always delivered with inimitable charm.
The book will be available to buy for the first time on the day, and performers include Laura Davis, Martin Wakefield, Beverley Frydman, Lucy Furlong, Matt Sokulsky, Jules Sprake, Lisa Blackwell, Susie Campbell, Patrick Cosgrove, Stephen Sunderland, Julia Rose Lewis, SJ Fowler and more.
This afternoon of performances will open with a celebration of two independent presses and a further book launch.
Asatami Legesse, an independent micro-publisher established by Italian visual poet and dada performer Dario Roberto Dioli and Zewditu Anteneh Retta, who will be visiting for this event, will host a launch for SJ Fowler’s new asemic limited edition pamphlet ‘Kawasaki Bush Doctor’ while sharing books by Sylee Gore and James Knight.
Stone Corpse Press, edited by Daniel J Flosi, based in the U.S., will be celebrated with the launch of new books by SJ Fowler, Abstract Automatic Autobiographical Asemic Argot stonecorpse.com/sj-fowler/ and Eleanor Wilders, I can swim, I just don’t want to stonecorpse.com/eleanor-wilders/
Knives Forks and Spoons, the longstanding UK experimental poetry mainstay, edited by Alec Newman, will share the latest release by the remarkable Julia Rose Lewis, Traumatism https://www.amazon.co.uk/Traumatism-Julia-Rose-Lewis/dp/1916590217/