Re-Enchant: July

RE:ENCHANT - Poetic Experiments For A New World

Live literature every third Sunday

Sunday 21 July - 5:00pm ( 81st anniversary of the attempt to assassinate Hitler )

ANDY CROFT 

MARTIN ROWSON'S The *Untsiad featuring Martin Rowson, Nick Revell, Eliza Carthy, Clare Ferguson Walker, Rosie Holt, Stewart Lee, Arthur Smith, Mark Steel, Matt Copson, Andy Croft and Jack Klaff.

Plus our open mic slot

Andy Croft is a writer, editor, poet, publisher, and poetry columnist for The Morning Star, and author of The Privatisation of Poetry (Broken Sleep Books)

His books include Red Letter Days, Out of the Old Earth, A Weapon in the Struggle, Selected Poems of Randall Swingler, After the Party, Forty-six Quid and a Bag of Dirty Washing, Bare Freedom, The Years of Anger and The Privatisation of Poetry.

Edited collections include Red Sky at Night (with Adrian Mitchell), North by North East (with Cynthia Fuller), Not Just a Game (with Sue Dymoke), A Modern Don Juan (with Nigel Thompson), Speaking English, Smokestack Lightning , and Release the Sausages: Poems for Keir Starmer.

His books of poetry include Nowhere Special, Just as Blue, Great North, Comrade Laughter, Ghost Writer, Sticky, Three Men on the Metro (with W.N. Herbert and Paul Summers),
Nineteen Forty-eight (with Martin Rowson), Letters to Randall Swingler and The Sailors of Ulm.

He will be reading from his latest collection The Sailors of Ulm, and from Escape to Moribundia (forthcoming).

Martin Rowson is a poet, satirist, Guardian & Morning Star cartoonist, and writer of The 'Untsiad -  A mock-heroic epic poem. A reimagining of Alexander Pope's "The Dunciad" for the 21st century that satirises greedy individuals and modern society.

Nick Revell started writing satirical and topical material for BBC Radio and TV in the late ‘70s on shows like Weekending, The News Huddlines and Not The Nine O'clock News. He began his career as a stand-up at The Comedy Store in 1980.
TV and Radio work as both a writer and performer include: The Nick Revell Show, Drop the Dead Donkey, The Million Pound Radio Show and most recently BrokenDreamCatcher

Eliza Carthy has performed and recorded around the world with a diverse array of artists including Paul Weller, Rufus & Martha Wainwright, Patrick Wolf, and Jarvis Cocker. She has twice been nominated for the Mercury Prize, and is the winner of innumerable other accolades over her thirty-year career. Describing herself simply as a modern English musician, she is one of the most impressive, engaging, and important performers of her generation.

Clare Ferguson Walker is a poet, sculptor and comedian. 

Rosie Holt is an actor and writer best known for her viral internet videos skewering the political landscape since the pandemic. She is the winner of the Chortle Social Media Award and is a BPG Emerging Creator Nominee. She has appeared on The Russell Howard Hour, Friday Night with Niall Paterson, The News Quiz, Please Use Other Door, Ashley Blaker 6.5 Children and performed in the critically acclaimed two-hander theatre show The Crown Live! with Brendan Murphy.
Rosie is host of the ARIA nominated satirical podcast Noncensored. Her book Why We Were Right by Rosie Holt MP is available to buy now.

Stewart Lee is a writer and stand-up comedian. He has written for radio, television, newspapers and magazines and has performed all over the world. His latest show Basic Lee was filmed at Salford Lowry for broadcast on Sky and streaming on Now TV.

Arthur Smith is a comedian and  writer, but, most importantly, the self-proclaimed (night) Mayor of Balham

Mark Steel is a Sony and Writers’ Guild Award-winning writer and comedian best known for his critically acclaimed BBC Radio 4 show Mark Steel’s in Town. Mark has presented the BAFTA-nominated Mark Steel Lectures for BBC Two, and is a regular on BBC One’s Have I Got News for You and BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz.  Mark is back on the radio this year with the 12th series of Mark Steel’s in Town, and he is about to start recording the second series of his hit podcast What The F*** Is Going On…?

Matt Copson is an artist and director. Recent solo exhibitions and projects include Coming of Age. Age of Coming. Of Coming Age. (KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2025), Obituary (Aspen Art Museum, 2023), Matt Copson: On Site (Swiss Institute, New York, 2019), Down Boy (Reena Spaulings, New York, 2019), Blorange (Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, 2018) and A Woodland Truce (Serpentine Galleries, London, 2016). He has worked extensively with musician Caroline Polachek, co-directing all her solo music videos and is currently working on directing a feature-film adaptation of the opera Last Days produced by MUBI.

Jack Klaff’s first movie was Star Wars. His first TV rôle was in an episode of The Sweeney which also featured Morecambe and Wise. And his London stage début was in a sex farce perilously close to Buckingham Palace. Jack has balanced long engagements at the RSC with far less rubbishy work like his solo shows in London and, just this month, New York. Jack’s recent screen rôles have included Flathead Jackson in Hugo Blick's The English with Emily Blunt and Mr Leonard in Guy Ritchie's MobLand.

To apply for the open mic slot click here.

Curated and introduced by Nick Moss in collaboration with The Cockpit
Sunday 18 May - 5:00pm

The world changes: we make new poetry to vandalise literary forms or retrieve those we need to renew.  We make new poetry to hybridise new species of understanding and reframe consciousness.

We make new poetry to have a good time.

Readings, recitations, incantations and events from established and upstart poets, word artists, ranters, spell-casters, rappers......and you if you want.