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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 25d

How could I miss out @tomjenksuk.bsky.social ?? 🙏

Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 25d

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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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · 25d

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 · Sep 5

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 · Sep 4

@stephensunderland.bsky.social - Artaud Update - allenginsberg.org/2025/09/t-s-4/

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...

allenginsberg.org

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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · Sep 4

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 · Aug 27

Thank you!

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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · Aug 22

Collages made yesterday and today from National Geographics gifted in 2021 🔆 #Surrealism #thecinemabeneaththelake

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Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social · Aug 13

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...

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...

jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk

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Sarah-Clare Conlon @sarahclareconlon.bsky.social · Aug 10

Also looking forward to this! 📚🎬

Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · Aug 9

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 · Aug 9

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 · Jul 29

The inspiration to write The Cinema Beneath the Lake - and the final product #surrealism

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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · Jul 25

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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · Jul 22

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · Jul 22

"Melinda tried to sit up only to discover that she couldn’t move her limbs; and when she tried to raise her head it appeared to be stuck to her pillow. It crackled as she moved"
– from The Cinema Beneath the Lake — Stephen Sunderland
( @stephensunderland.bsky.social )

minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · Jul 22

The Cinema Beneath the Lake — Stephen Sunderland
( @stephensunderland.bsky.social )

minorliteratures.com/2025/07/22/t...

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · Jul 22

"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...

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…

minorliteratures.com

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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · Jul 22

Actual instructions! For more details:

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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · Jul 22

‘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 · Jul 20

My chapbook, punctuated avalanche, is now available from
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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · Jul 21

Trailer for film-novel The Cinema Beneath the Lake 👇

Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · Jul 21

Kind words about the book 🙏🔆👇

Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · Jul 21

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 · Jul 20

Extract from The Cinema Beneath the Lake channels Leonora Carrington via bee perversion, mason jar husbandry, matriarchal conspiracies and an imaginary beheading. 🙃

minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · Jul 20

and coming up this week ...

— an extract from @stephensunderland.bsky.social 's The Cinema beneath the Lake

— @monalisavitti.bsky.social interviews journalist, writer and President of the Gabrielle Wittkop Society, Lou Syrah

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Vik Shirley @vikshirley.bsky.social · Jul 12

”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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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · Jul 12

www.3ammagazine.com/3am/a-surrea...

Really pleased to have this review of Some Deer by @vikshirley.bsky.social at 3:AM now! 🖤🙏🔆

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...

www.3ammagazine.com

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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · Jul 12

blackboxmanifold.sites.sheffield.ac.uk

Really pleased to have four poems from my collection, STOAT, in the new edition of Blackbox Manifold! 🖤🙏🔆

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...

blackboxmanifold.sites.sheffield.ac.uk

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Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social · Jun 26

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! 🖤🔆🙏

minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · Jun 26

July looking good ...

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