Gloucester Road Books hosts the award-winning, much-loved Bristol author and poet, Stefan Mohamed, who will be discussing and reading from his brand new poetry collection, The Revelation Tapes. Stefan will be in conversation with fellow Bristol poet, Tom Sastry.

The Revelation Tapes showcases Stefan's unique vision and bold originality as he presents an apocalyptic near future populated by all manner of warped events and extremes.

Here's more from publisher, Broken Sleep Books:

The Revelation Tapes... unfolds as a salvaged transmission: a film-show remastered from corroded cassettes, screened in the ruins of a drowned future, its overture barked by a game-show host of the apocalypse. Across seven acts a loose band of kids persevere through ecological collapse, blag their way into a nightclub at the end of the world, and meet God at the end of a metaphorical bullet. Mohamed braids manic comedy with grief, moving from prose tirade to scattered concrete text to group-chat syntax as he works through parasocial fixation, the remix of memory and self, and the wreckage of the overexamined mind. Mohamed's poetry loops back on itself like the river that opens and closes it, finding tenderness inside the noise.

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"Stefan Mohamed is a brilliant poet... A joyful and furious collection, and his best so far." — Luke Kennard

"Stefan Mohamed is an unparalleled phrase maker, and this collection is rich with typographic and repetitious play that gives these poems their dark musicality." — Suzannah Evans

"A mesmeric and sprawling work of alarming talent and uniqueness … I was gripped by the storytelling, wit and complexity of this book." — Jake Wild Hall

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Stefan Mohamed is an award-winning author, poet, performer and creative writing tutor based in Bristol. He is the author of five novels and four books of poetry; The Revelation Tapes, is his fifth. He also DJs.

Tom Sastry is political, ironic, emotional, morbid and funny in all the wrong places. He is the author of three poetry collections and one pamphlet. These have been, variously, Poetry School Book of the Year, Poetry Book Society pamphlet choice, highly commended in the Forward Prize and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize.