Utter! Lutonia June 26
UTTER! Lutonia sustains the kindness, extends the commitment, spreads it’s metaphors even more widely, keeps it peculiar and stands firm in the (re)storm – nil carborundum etc...
This month’s chances for reflection, rumination and renewal come from:
Kid Kirby
Kid Kirby - cheeky, folky, rocky, waving at darknesses.
https://www.instagram.com/kidkirbymusic/
https://soundcloud.com/kid-kirby-1
David Cain
David shares his latest collection, '1985' about Luton, football & dad’s.
Award-nominated Luton poet David Cain premiers a new work, '1985'. A social-poetic reflection on the moods of Luton, football, and living on a dream. 1985 explores a few short months in time as the world changes pace around the hills of Luton.
This follows his powerful return with his much-anticipated second poetry collection, To Wake Up In The Promised Land ( 2025) available from Tonic Sta Press.
David’s previous collection, Truth Street, a bold documentary poem about the 1989 Hillsborough Stadium disaster, was shortlisted for the prestigious Forward Prizes for Poetry (2019) and hailed for its formal innovation and emotional resonance.
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Belle Epoque
Visually poetic, late night missives from an offbeat, Antipodean escapee.
Bob Beagrie
Bob Beagrie (PhD) is a North East poet, writer and performer. He has published fifteen collections of poetry, most recently: The Hand of Glory: a biography' (Yaffle 2025), Romanceros (Drunk Muse Press 2024), Eftwyrd (Smokestack Books 2023).
Bob will be performing a selection of poems from ‘The Hand of Glory: a biography’. The book is an absurd narrative told as a sequence of prose poems which relate the adventures and exploits of the infamous mummified human hand currently displayed in Whitby Museum.
A Hand of Glory was supposedly the carefully prepared and “pickled” right hand of a felon, cut off while the body still hung from the gallows and used by burglars to send sleepers in the house into a coma from which they were unable to wake. Hands of Glory appear in various tales of European folklore.
Poet, performer, literary activist
"A writer of depth and daring..." - Fran Lock
"There's nothing quite like Bob Beagrie's poetry."- Kathleen Jones
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Craig Donohoe
Craig Donohoe aka the 'Last Minute Poet' has turned being late for Luton poetry gigs into a original art form. Writing on the spot and summarising the evening’s performances he defines in the moment
the new emerging Luton poetry scene. Come and see if he can capture it tonight and witness a type of poet not seen before!
As ever, hosting and vibe-wrangling comes from Lee Nelson, sounds and grooves originate in Steve Whiting and, under the calm, professional bookseller that is Andy Kingston, we will also have the almost legendary Clod Magazine Bookstall upon which (amongst other things) you may be fortunate enough to seek to purchase works by the above listed artists . . .
