Kulvert Books Presents
Selah! The Underground River Poetry Night
with Music by Bristol's Nile Robinson.

Come along to Kulvert Books 'UNDERGROUND RIVER' Poetry and Music Night with a open mic poetry slots that are open to all!

The night also includes musical performance by Bristol's Nile Robinson. There will be a Kulvert book stall and readings from Kulvert Poets featuring:
Samatar Elmi
Asmaa Jama
Rebecca Kosick
& Fran Pope

The event starts at 5.30pm and the reading begins at 6pm with a sign up for open mic readings. Come early to sign up to read your poems.

PWUC/donations
at Wiper & True, The Barrel Store
St Werburghs
2-8 York Street
BS2 9XT

Kulvert is an independent publisher of poetry founded in 2024. It publishes new and established poets in an accessible pocket sized format. It specialises in publishing out of print and new work by established poets alongside debut collections by younger poets. @kulvert_books https://www.kulvertbooks.com

About the poets:
Asmaa Jama is an award-winning poet and multidisciplinary artist. Jama is the winner of the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, Access x Art Prize, and featured in The Poetry Review, The Good Journal, Ambit, and Popshot Magazine. Their work has been exhibited at Venice Architecture Biennale, commissioned by Hayward Gallery, Arnolfini and Jerwood Arts. 

Rebecca Kosick is a poet and Professor of Poetry and Poetics at the University of Bristol where she also co-directs the Bristol Poetry Institute. She is the author of three books:  Dispatches from the Avant-Garage: The Alternative Press (Wayne State University Press 2026), Labor Day (Golias Books 2020) and Material Poetics in Hemispheric America: Words and Objects, 1950-2010 (Edinburgh University Press 2020).

Samatar Elmi is an award-winning poet and musician. He is the author of Portrait of Colossus (flipped eye press, 2021), and The Epic of Cader Idris (Bloomsbury, 2024) and his forthcoming book Agen Bien Fou is published by Kulvert in June. He is the winner of the 2021 Geoffrey Dearmer Prize. His poetry has featured in Poetry magazine, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Magma, and Iota and anthologised in More Fiya, Filigree, After Plath, and The Echoing Gallery. 

Fran Pope is a poet and music journalist. Her translation of School for Girls was published by QC Fiction, 2022. She has published three poetry collections, The Brazen Forecast (Cactus Press, 2020), Quarters (Ekstasis Editions, 2020) and Holy Blue with Kulvert, 2025.