(IMAGE CREDIT: Seth Guy) 

Join us for our fortieth event and eighth book launch event celebrating the publication of ‘Towards The Orange Horizon’ by John Dorsey & Gwil James Thomas. Featuring performers: 

JOHN DORSEY: 

John Dorsey is the former Poet Laureate of Belle, MO. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Which Way to the River: Selected Poems: 2016-2020 (OAC Books, 2020), Sundown at the Redneck Carnival, (Spartan Press, 2022, Pocatello Wildflower, (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2023), Dead Photographs, (Stubborn Mule Press, 2024). He may be reached at [email protected].

GWIL JAMES THOMAS: 

Gwil James Thomas is a poet, novelist and inept musician. He lives in his home town of Bristol, England, but he’s also lived in London, Brighton and Spain. His most recent chapbooks are Mercy (Two Key Customs) and Accumulated (Crying Heart Press) a split with the poet William Barker. His poetry has also been published by Tangerine Press, Vipers Tongue, The Scumrag and River Dog Zine, amongst others. He is part English, part Welsh and part wolf. IG:@gwiljamesthomas

KAY GRANT: 

Voice-player, song-singer, music-writer, free-improviser – Kay Grant travels an open-eared and open-armed path through musical styles with a commitment to the joy of exploration. Considering the voice as an instrumental component marks her work with a wealth of textures and timbres, melodies and miscalculations, rhythms and randomness, structure and spontaneous surprises. Grant has toured and recorded throughout the UK, Europe and in the US, from intimate venues to celebrated spaces including the Barbican in London, Carnegie Hall in New York and Le Zénith in Paris. She plays locally with her jazz ensemble and in improvising groups including Broken Numbers. 

JASON SHELLEY: 

London based writer, Jason Shelley, is the author of 2 books of poetry, prose and short stories, No Looking Back, Grey Love, The Romance, an episode in the life of a young writer (an abstract episode), and The Yawn.  The Yawn is an 1/1 art concertina book, made in collaboration with RA artist, Katherine Jones. Shelley has also had published works in zines and periodicals including a short story named Off the Road, a European rewriting of Kerouac's in the 10th year anniversary of Mumbai based magazine, Gallerie,