THE POPOGROU COLLECTIVE

Bob T. Bright, Susie Campbell, Patrick Cosgrove, SJ Fowler, Sylee Gore,Victoria Kaye, Simon Tyrrell, Martin Wakefield.

 PoPoGrou

The Popogrou collective - Simon Tyrrell, Patrick Cosgrove, Susie Campbell, Laura Davis, Lucy Furlong, Ailsa Holland, Stephen Sunderland, Vicki Kaye, Martin Wakefield, Chris Kerr, Sylee Gore, Bob Bright, Lisa Blackwell, SJ Fowler et al.

Popogrou emerged, and emerges, from a series of online workshops, begun during the pandemic, curated by SJ Fowler. It has now evolved into a true collective, ongoing, various, experimental and playful. Defined by a open aesthetic of serious experiment alongside genial collaboration and humour, the Popogrou …

  • Patrick Cosgrove is an artist and poet based in London. Perhaps his work explores the thingness of words (or possibly the unsayable in things) - he is not sure.

  • Simon Tyrrell is a writer and artist whose work celebrates the customary language, marks and symbols people have used to present, protect and promote their community and make sense of the relationships, time and space they share. The pleasure and privilege of participating in PoPoGrou’s permissive playful midst has illuminated his enquiry and energised his practice, and a book is being heralded. www.tyrrellknot.com

  • Martin Wakefield is a poet from London, UK."

  • Bob Bright, poet yogi [ educator fool * bum kent postgrad bedford square 9 anthology vallum magazine pamenar magazine permeable KUP bobbrightt.com southampton cincinnati japan constituted gongfarmer * alive to possibility dead to world [       ] reading performance sonic waves long list

  • Victoria Kaye is a multi-disciplinary artist/writer who invites the visual and the linguistic to dinner, steals their ideas, then boots them out the door. Some of her work can be seen at www.victoriakaye.net

  • Susie Campbell is currently researching experimental grammar in the work of Gertrude Stein at Oxford Brookes University and developing her own text-based poetry staged as participatory linguistic event.  Recent poetry publications include 'I return to you' (Sampson Low, 2019), 'Tenter' (Guillemot Press, 2020) and forthcoming, 'Enclosures' (Osmosis Press, 2021). https://susiecampbellwrites.wordpress.com

  • Keeping the revolutionary spirit alive from France, Emma Hellyer squeezes the po of politics and a lyric O into PoPoGrou, while kick-starting the collective’s intersemiotic translation sequences. She is currently writing her first poetry collection, featuring choreographic poems.