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An Evening of Spoken Word & Poetry:

JONATHAN EVANS:
 
My first venture into writing was courtesy of Talking Tales where I presented a story entitled “The Mystery of Ernie Taylor’s Abdomen” in 2017.

I was terrified but managed to survive and the story morphed into a book which was published in 2018.  In 2022 I completed a further collection, “ The Rum Jungle Hotel and Other Travel Stories” and his third book “Silo Killer Qu’est ceque c’est?” is due out in September.

As well as prose I occasionally write a bit of poetry!

I am a regular contributor to BBC Radio Bristol’s Upload programme.

In addition to writing my interests include long distance running, draining the European wine Lake and supporting Nottingham Forest.
 

ASHLEY A. MOUNSEY:

A Bristolian poet new to performance and publication, her work seeks to strike a balance between a materialist disposition and a sensitivity to spiritual constructs; a desire for the radical (though as-yet-nascent) socialist consensus, and for consideration of the tradition of English literature; a trans feminist who values marginalised perspectives, yet holds a deep scepticism towards the incentives that would have us commodify identity. Ashley seeks to synthesise a voice that can resolve these tensions through a contemporary lyrical style of verse.

BARRY HOLLOW:

Barry, originally from Ayrshire, now lives in Bristol. His debut collection, Viaducts & River Views was published by Black Cat Poetry Press. It explores themes of home and belonging.

He has featured and performed regularly on BBC Radio and spoken word showcases across the South West (Lyra Poetry Festival, Ledbury Poetry & Bristol Literature Festival) and has also been published in a variety of anthologies and poetry journals. Barry has recently ventured into Poetry Filmmaking - with screenings at StAnza and ReelPoetry International Poetry Film Festivals. He has also been featured by Spelt Magazine and Bristol Poetry Film Club

KINGA STEFANIEC:

Kinga Stefaniec which backwards translates as feminine Stephen King of poetry, in a new category but I am not gory!

Born in Mazovian central Poland, most life was spent in Silesia where graduate in Silesian University with a teaching diploma Polish Philology studies. 

In 2008 migrated to Northampton working class heroine still first two years working in both countries travelling constantly mostly hitch hiking between Poland and England. Polish work was called by a state probation support worker. In 2011 second coming to Bristol ends up homeless on Christmas and joins protest Occupy Bristol in College Green which gives basis to the whole transformation as a writer starting to write on that fertile ground her own urban legends populating illustrated streets of Bristol.
"I Stole Bristol!" Advocate about mental health awareness and need to implement changes into British NHS as organic work in community. After being institutionalised for long period of five years long imprisonment and forced medications experienced another journey teaching lessons and extending barriers as a writer deeply engaged to discharge from this tool of opression through locking away nomad soul in cage as a torture and hell on earth but gives a lot lived experience as mental health patient and growing interest in psychiatry current propaganda as not effective method of treatment observator participator and carrier of insight into nature of mental illness.  

Artistic expressionism future primitive sound and vision presents too in photography, music & video, poster, prints and oil on wooden boards. 

Collaborate with Art Club PRSC in Jamaica Street and local artists we are called The Rejects or Positive Junkies recalling Neo Beatniks intellectual inspirations these group of american writers had such profound meaning that Vision of Poetry meets the grounds another shift of humanity consciousness similar to American revolution in the 60's bringing good times Rock'n'Roll our fourties generation been sentimental and in midlife crisis we search nostalgia in Perfect childhoods so we follow again the same as kids fascinated with American Dream in communist Poland cut off from rotten West with Iron Courtain but still in my polish blood I heard calling to find different land as travelling nomad polish gypsy who look up  roots so I found them here in Bristol. Continuing lifelong personal scientific  research over psychedelic psychotherapy in modern psychiatry following Third Wave psychedelic society working on changing systems in America and working on Changing Systems chain of organic work put in place to transform Bristol psycholocoation society into better healthy community using alternative underground resistance Anarchy in the United Kingadom of Poetry!

Oh yes please add that im non binary diesel dyke who represents LGBT+ community and writes stories where rewrites heteronormative archetypes in subconcious mind sent to Hive MInd to manipulate source code of Matrix into feminine and masculine jin and jang balancing forces and central erotic bong beetween females reincarnation of mythic godesses which explains free electricty dowload from the source inspiration to be a writer came that day when Allen Ginsberg died 
Thinks the only gay in the village stationed in Stokes Croft like software Lara Croft exploring simulation control room 
Advocates campaign to legalize drugs as follow campaign run when Punk Paul homeless legend of Stokes overdosed spice and died by Bearpit and was my close friend I even made him one of the population in debut novel Explosives Under Special Supervision written on psycho ward my way to intrepret my lived experience with substances changing state of mind in healing proportions I formulate my Teoria Realia base to start public debate.
Publications:
Nuthouse Episode 2018
Explosives Under Special Supervision 2021 (under pen name Aleks Koval)
City & Mind Coda 2021 (pen name)
Grazing the Wallpaper of Reality 2022

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