(IMAGE CREDIT: SETH GUY)

JOE WILLIAMS:

Joe Williams is a poet and educator living in Gloucestershire. He was brought up partly by people and partly by trees. This shows in his writing. He now shares his home with a growing population of feral notebooks. He is in the process of releasing them into the wild.


DAN EVERETT:

Born in Cheltenham and growing up listening to Captain Beefheart, Ian Dury and Dr Feelgood, Daniel went to art school in Winchester with the primary aim of joining a band. After playing with alt-Rock group, the Bullycats, Daniel then became a founding member of the pioneering country-folk group Polly and the Billets Doux. He spent over decade touring up and down Britain, Ireland and mainland Europe but has continued to perform his own music in which he draws upon his interests in cultural memory, social history and literature to inform his songwriting. After living in Bristol for 10 years, Daniel moved with his family close to the banks of the Severn in Gloucestershire, and he has just finished a body of work exploring the folklore and history around a river that also inspired Ivor Gurney and Laurie Lee. Daniel will be playing these songs tonight.


PAUL SIMS:

Paul Sims is an artist, photographer and writer whose central interest is in peripheral places and of peripheral people; oddities who are beyond and often permanently beyond the centre of things. He was initially inspired by surrealism and feels that, to an extent, he has remained a lifelong surrealist, which has informed all that he has created. In short, what he does is about the strangeness of the world or how it appears strange to him. Though, as a self-confessed peripheral person, he has largely worked as a private indulgence - at the edges of things, he has began to appear in public and even publish some poetry; coming up from nowhere to, no doubt, go back there again soon. During this trajectory, he hopes to reach out to anyone who might be interested. Such as tonight.


GWIL JAMES THOMAS:

Gwil James Thomas is a poet, novelist and inept musician. He lives in his home town of Bristol, England but has also lived in London, Brighton and Spain. His poetry can be found widely in print and online in places such as Viper’s Tongue, Haikus, Fauxkus, Nearkus and Fuckyous and DFL Lit. He has been nominated for The Best of The Net twice and once for The Pushcart Prize. He was also once a member of the band Irreparables (Nominal Records). He is part English, part Welsh and part wolf. Instagram: @gwiljamesthomas

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