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Stephen Sunderland

@stephensunderland.bsky.social
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Poetry prose & things inbetween // PhD on surrealist women’s fiction // film-novel: The Cinema Beneath the Lake // Poetry: Eye Movement/ Oneiroscope/ Refrains/ linktr.ee/stephen.sunderland www.everydaymarvellous.com

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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Audacity of Form! Ice floe press. @amygcb.bsky.social @bimxie.bsky.social @meetthepresses.bsky.social @stephensunderland.bsky.social @danadelibovi.bsky.social @ljensenlampe.bsky.social @whatdanieldrew.bsky.social @jacobwren.bsky.social @jackbedell.bsky.social @hfr.bsky.social @tolu.ca 🔥
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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Dis/enchantment/ Anomie /Spectacle Series: check it out! @icefloepress.bsky.social @mjseyesopened.bsky.social @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @stephensunderland.bsky.social @heavycloud.bsky.social @steelincisors.bsky.social @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app @bimxie.bsky.social @ljensenlampe.bsky.social ....🎤
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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The Cinema Beneath the Lake. Twelves months in the world & still looking for readers! 🙂 see Link.tree in bio for details🪼🪼
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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Very much looking forward to this event on Saturday! Do come along if you can! 🔆🙏
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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
"New Year’s Eve, A Graphite Apartment." by Robert Frede Kenter. A new prose poem & photo-based collage w/ hand-painted elements #poly #hybrid #prosepoem #collage #photo #ekphrastic published March 2026 in The PROSE POEM Journal (web).
Artwork part of New Year’s Eve, A Graphite Apartment
by Robert Frede Kenter published in the journal THE PROSE POEM, for March 2026 (part of an ekphrastic project) where writers work from their own artwork.   A row of houses (late 19th century).'Graphite Apartment,' photo-based collage with hand painted elements, Autumn 2024. robert frede kenter (c).I have holes of light flooding my body. When Father asked me in which direction we should proceed, I said let’s head to the sassafras trees at the South Shore Point. When mother said to me, Oh look, the rose in the glass by the window is dying, I held my hand out and gave her another one. I spit the skin of the milk from the glass into the fireplace. Mother played Chopin on the black and white keys of her beige piano. Every baby born on New Year’s after midnight is photographed. I remember you said, you were one of them. That was many years ago. They lined three babies up in front of a birthday cake. You kept the photograph that appeared in the New Year’s day edition of the daily newspaper, and kept it between dictionary pages like one would an autumn leaf. Father said, A fool can make a joke out of their own person. I was never completely sure what he meant. Rose stems, thorns on a plant that never bloomed. Standing still by snow-covered ledges, tiny crowns, the webbed feet of crows, drawing in graphite on a folio, exploring haptic lines, a cluster of melodies, a cartography of memories.
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Ice Floe Press (OPEN for Subs June - July 2026) @icefloepress.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Process in its final week!. Been a blast incl. work from: @amantineb.bsky.social @stephensunderland.bsky.social @kerryrawli.bsky.social @jenwithwords.bsky.social @marianchristie.bsky.social @seangmeggeson.bsky.social @heavycloud.bsky.social @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @susiecampbell.bsky.social
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Ice Floe Press (OPEN for Subs June - July 2026) @icefloepress.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
This week Ice Floe Process series begins w/ extraordinary feature from 2 leading contemporary surrealists in collaboration: Chilean/Canadian #poet Beatriz Hausner & influential Dutch surrealist #painter Rik Lina. Enjoy these evocations of interior alternative worlds icefloepress.net/2026/02/23/f...
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from THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS – Beatriz Hausner & Rik Lina
THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS MOVING IN The house had remained empty for what seemed like several eternities, despite its prominent location in the centre of Paris. It was as if the walls had signed a …
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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Anyone wanting a journey into the thought and poetry of Arthur Rimbaud should take a look at this great book 🖤🔆
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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Such kind words! 🙏🔆🙏🔆 A real pleasure to have a visual poem sequence with @icefloepress.bsky.social Many thanks to @rfredekenter.bsky.social and @vikkicwrites.bsky.social for having me 🖤
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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Recent arrival & looking excellent!
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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Part of a visual poetry sequence - All the Air Gone Out - up currently at 3:AM journal www.3ammagazine.com/3am/all-the-...
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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Really pleased to be part of this project! 🔆🙏🖤
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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
a form of meat that sits around, goitrous and lame in bars
The Butcher'S Revolt seems a pure articulation of this idea: the stripping away of the 'derm' of reality flays back to meat in the Svankmajerian sense of that material identity: a form of meat that sits around, goitrous and lame in bars, or plays forfelts with itself as a form of currency in speeding taxis going to the slaughterhouse, an enormous butcher already squatting on the hood.
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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
How could I miss out @tomjenksuk.bsky.social ?? 🙏
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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Looking forward to this event on Thursday evening in Manchester! If you want to hear some great poetry (and a little bit of my first novel!) in a perfection location, please come down! @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social @ianseedauthor.bsky.social @sarahclareconlon.bsky.social
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Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
In the post today, "Cosgrovia" a gargantuan book filled with work by the fantastic Patrick Cosgrove, essays by @stephensunderland.bsky.social and SJ Fowler, published by the mighty @steelincisors.bsky.social. You can get yourself a copy here: www.steelincisors.com/product/cosg...
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ginsbergpoem.bsky.social @ginsbergpoem.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
@stephensunderland.bsky.social - Artaud Update - allenginsberg.org/2025/09/t-s-4/
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Artaud Update - The Allen Ginsberg Project
Artaud – Last Writings  – The last writings of Antonin Artaud translated and published in English by Zurich and Berlin-based publishers, Diaphanes (distributed by the University of Chicago) and brough...
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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
New essay for anyone interested in Artaud & cinepoetry! www.blackheraldpress.com/post/artaud-... Many thanks to @blackheraldpress.bsky.social 🙏🙏🙏🔆🔆🔆
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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Collages made yesterday and today from National Geographics gifted in 2021 🔆 #Surrealism #thecinemabeneaththelake
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Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
OPPORTUNITY!! @royalholloway.bsky.social is recruiting a poet to join our Creative Writing team - the role is part-time (0.5), permanent, and encompasses teaching and research! More than happy to chat about department culture and all things RHUL poetry🧡 jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Lecturer in Creative Writing (poetry)
Part-Time, Permanent (0.5 FTE)Applications are invited for the post of Lecturer in Creative Writing in the English Department, to start September 2025. Creative writing is expanding at RHUL. Joining t...
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Sarah-Clare Conlon @sarahclareconlon.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Also looking forward to this! 📚🎬
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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Looking forward to this event on 18th September in Manchester where I get to ceremonially welcome the arrival of my novel in the company of some amazing writers! 🙏🔆🖤🥳
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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
The inspiration to write The Cinema Beneath the Lake - and the final product #surrealism
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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
"When she came to at last [...] she found an elderly, corpulent, red-faced man studying her from an arm chair that had been brought into her bedroom ..." The Cinema Beneath the Lake — @stephensunderland.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/07/22/t...
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The Cinema Beneath the Lake — Stephen Sunderland
☼☼☼ When she came to at last, having dreamt of riding in a forest full of gymnasium equipment and clambering over hills made of grown-ups’ shoes, she found an elderly, corpulent, red-faced man stud…
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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Actual instructions! For more details: www.lulu.com/shop/stephen...
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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
‘How to access a jellyfish’ (artwork, The Cinema beneath the Lake) Out today! www.lulu.com/shop/stephen...
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Joshua Martin @jmartinpoetry.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
My chapbook, punctuated avalanche, is now available from @stonecorpse.com! Download the FREE PDF or purchase a copy. This book skids, belching syntactical hocus-pocus, reducing words, symbols, and punctuation to a trash heap. stonecorpse.com/joshua-martin/
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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Trailer for film-novel The Cinema Beneath the Lake 👇
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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Kind words about the book 🙏🔆👇
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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Tremendous excitement here! The Cinema Beneath the Lake— my surrealist film-novel @orbistertiuspress.bsky.social 🗣 “An astonishing and revelatory achievement.” — Richard Shillitoe 📖 Order: www.lulu.com/shop/stephen... #surrealism #newbook #experimentalfiction
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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Extract from The Cinema Beneath the Lake channels Leonora Carrington via bee perversion, mason jar husbandry, matriarchal conspiracies and an imaginary beheading. 🙃
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Vik Shirley @vikshirley.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
”an uncanny and blackly comic fable-cycle for a collapsing world” Infinite thanks to @stephensunderland.bsky.social for this in depth review of Some Deer @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social just published over at the mighty 3am magazine. 🦌🖤🦌🖤🦌🖤🦌🖤🦌🖤🦌🖤 www.3ammagazine.com/3am/a-surrea...
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A Surrealism of Pure Endurance – 3:AM Magazine
Carrington’s animals shift, transmute, and exit human epistemologies. Vik Shirley’s deer cannot. Instead, they persist—not because they expect to change anything, but because stopping would mean total...
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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
www.3ammagazine.com/3am/a-surrea... Really pleased to have this review of Some Deer by @vikshirley.bsky.social at 3:AM now! 🖤🙏🔆
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A Surrealism of Pure Endurance – 3:AM Magazine
Carrington’s animals shift, transmute, and exit human epistemologies. Vik Shirley’s deer cannot. Instead, they persist—not because they expect to change anything, but because stopping would mean total...
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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
blackboxmanifold.sites.sheffield.ac.uk Really pleased to have four poems from my collection, STOAT, in the new edition of Blackbox Manifold! 🖤🙏🔆
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Blackbox Manifold
Kat Addis Sascha Akhtar Annie Baker Charlie Baylis Linda Black Catherine Bither Iain Britton Kimberly Campanello Imogen Cassels Joel Chace Stuart Cooke Ken Evans Adam Flint Alexander Gau...
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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Very pleased to have a preview extract from my film-novel, The Cinema Beneath the Lake, up with the excellent @minorliteratures.bsky.social coming up in late July! 🖤🔆🙏
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Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
You can find out more about the GAZAGAZAGAZA exhibition, and the submission guidelines, here: www.artistssupportingpalestine.org/gazagazagaza All proceeds go to @medicalaidpal.bsky.social
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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Very much👇
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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
If in London and looking for poetry today - come to The Poetry Café! 🔆👇
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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I gathered myself in the G and the A and the Z and the A. I became GAZA. A thousand warplanes circled and struck me. - Ibrahim Nasrallah, “Palestinian”
When my roof was suddenly blown off into the sky and with it a
wall, a window, and my youngest,
I gathered myself in the G and the A and the Z and the A.
I became GAZA.
A thousand warplanes circled and struck me.
I collapsed and collapsed again, and then rose with a scream.
I called out, but nothing came of it.
I lost faith and believed, lost faith and believed again, and lost faith and believed and... nothing came of it, nothing.
And the despicable world asks me:
All this... for what, and what of it?
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The Fantastic Women Of Surrealism Often idealized, portrayed as mysterious creature, goddess, she-devil, fetish and muse, objects of both fear and erotic desire. In the 1930s women joining the Surrealist circles started questioning their own reflection. magazine.artland.com/the-fantasti...
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The Fantastic Women Of Surrealism - Artland Magazine
Women were at center of surrealism and many were key contributors to the movement. Nevertheless, most of them are still unknown today.
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John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Sound the metallic trumpets: www.thrilljockey.com/index
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Thrill Jockey
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Jack Spicer
A Second Train Song for Gary

When the trains come into strange cities
The citizens come out to meet the strangers.
I love you, Jack, he said
I love you, Jack, he said
At another station.
When passengers come in from strange cities
The citizens come out to help the strangers.
I love you too, I said
I love you too, I said
From another station.
The citizens are kind to passing strangers
And nourish them and kiss their lips in kindness.
I walk the unbelieving streets
I walk the unbelieving streets
In a strange city.
At night in cold new beds the welcomed strangers
Achieve in memory the city’s promise.
I wake in love with you
I wake in love with you
At last year’s station.
Then say goodbye to citizens and city
Admit this much—that they were kind to strangers.
I leave my love with you
I leave my love with you
In this strange city.
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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I’m looking forward to this!
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talking-time.bsky.social @talking-time.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
The sixth day of our fourteenth issue includes poems by Frances Boyle, Sheila E. Murphy and Daniel Hubbard, and The art of writing #111 an interview with Ian Seed @francesboyle19.bsky.social @ianseedauthor.bsky.social talkingaboutstrawberries.blogspot.com
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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
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