Since 2017, I’ve been running the SAMPSON LOW POETRY PAMPHLET SERIES, designed to evidence the remarkable contemporary and innovative poetry being written by current and recent Kingston University Creative Writing students. https://www.writerskingston.com/sampsonlow This year was a special one, as it marked the debut publications of Cameron Wade and Matthew Sokulsky. Following the work of Stanimir Dimitrov and Kayona Daley for last year’s pamphlets, this marks really a peak for me as a lecturer and a collaborator with younger poets, helping them find the right spaces for their ideas and work. Cameron and Matt, like Stan and Kayona, are remarkable people, as well as poets. They couldn’t be harder working, more reliable, more mature. They are funny, naturally and authentically original, and their taking to the inventiveness these pamphlets encourage speaks to it being in their nature. I’ve been proud to work with them.

You can buy Matthews’s THE BOOK OF MATTHEW here https://sampsonlow.co/2023/03/09/the-book-of-matthew-matthew-j-sokulsky/

And Cameron’s I SMELL METAL https://sampsonlow.co/2023/03/09/i-smell-metal-cameron-wade/

A final note must go to the publisher, the amazing Alban Low, who supports me, along with these students, so selflessly and with such energy and skill. He’s a man I’m lucky to know.