COLLIDING LINES presents,
K I N E T I C @ I K L E C T I K
Thursday 9 June 2022 | 8pm [7:30pm doors]
Tickets: £8 / £12+book https://buytickets.at/iklectik/692053
Colliding Lines present K I N E T I C, an anthology of new visual poetry and performance. Taking “movement” as its starting point, the collection features ten poems reimagined in print, created collaboratively between writer and designer.
Join us as we launch our baby into the wild, celebrating its emergence with live readings from our featured poets – both in person and remote, via video-link – as well as multimedia live performances and film. The project’s themes are mirrored in a series of new dance pieces we’ll be screening from contemporary dancer Hannah Spencer. We are also excited to present a new moving poem, produced as part of the project by award-winning designer Ting-An Ho.
The anthology is sequel to 2021’s publication H O M E, and features the work of designers Angharad Hengyu Owen, Manita Songserm, Rosaire Appel, Pedro Neves and Pouya Ahmadi.
Published poets include Bibi June, Cleo Henry, Daisy Thurston-Gent, David & Lizzy Turner, Lauren Scharhag, Lola de la Mata, Nikki Marrone, Robin Lamboll, Tina Lesnik, Veronique Homann & Wesley Freeman-Smith.
Bibi June is a poet and performance maker who writes about queerness, climate justice and post-apocalyptic hope. Their second pamphlet ‘Critique of the Criminal Justice System’ was nominated for the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award, and their latest pamphlet ‘Kinsey Scale for the Emotionally Fragile Queer’ is being published by Burning Eye in May 2022. They write for award-winning queer horror podcast ‘Folxlore’.
www.bibijune.com
Cleo Henry (they/them)
is a writer and researcher based in London. They are particularly interested in queerness, archives and the apocalypse. Their first pamphlet, The Last Lesbian Bar in the Midlands, is upcoming from Fourteen Poems.
www.twitter.com/CleoHenry19
Daisy Thurston-Gent
is a writer and producer from Cambridge. She is a founding member of London Queer Writers, a creative network curating regular live poetry events and monthly writing workshops for the LGBTQ+ community. She is one half of Radio Xaddy, a brave little podcast about Queer history and lifestyle.
www.daisytg.wordpress.com
Lauren Scharhag (she/her)
is an associate editor for GLEAM: Journal of the Cadralor, and the author of thirteen books, including ‘Requiem for a Robot Dog’ (Cajun Mutt Press) and ‘Languages, First and Last’ (Cyberwit Press). She has had over 200 publications in literary venues around the world. Recent honors include finalist for the Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Contest and the Seamus Burns Creative Writing Prize. Her work has also received multiple Best of the Net, Pushcart Prize, and Rhysling Award nominations. She lives in Kansas City, MO.
www.laurenscharhag.blogspot.com
Nikki Marrone
is a spoken word performer, published poet, photographer, and coffee addict. She is motivated through feelings, of which she has plenty. Nikki is the winner of multiple poetry slams and has featured at various spoken word nights and festivals internationally but is based in the UK. Author of ‘Lost & Found: A Poetry Passport’, ‘Psychogenic Fugue’ and ‘Honey & Lemon’. She splits her time between motherhood, being creative, adventuring and doing her MA in childhood & youth.
www.nikkimarrone.co.uk
Robin Lamboll
is a physicist researching climate change, and writes on the intersection between the natural and the human. Robin has won the UK, Vogon and Madrid International poetry slam finals, and came second in the World Cup of Slam in 2019.
https://linktr.ee/rlamboll
Veronique Homann
is a writer and artist originally from Austria, now based in Berlin, Germany. Her work is dedicated to detecting gaps and finding methods to fill them.www.homannin.tumblr.com
Wesley Freeman-Smith
is an event producer and live arts facilitator, and founder of Colliding Lines. His other projects include Catching Shadows, a spoken word and sound art band. He enjoys putting text and text-based things where they shouldn’t be. He currently lives in Cambridge, UK.
www.collidinglines.com/team/wes