07/07/2025
We are back this July with our first ever double bill show. We will have performances from our Feature poet Lee Campbell and the artist Sophie Jongman talking about her art. As usual, we will kick off with Open Mic, so come with your poems.
Date - Saturday, July 26, 2025
Time - 2pm
Venue - 272 High St, Chatham ME4 4BP
Tickets here - https://medwaypoetrynight.com/
Read about them below:
Dr Lee Campbell is an artist, poet, filmmaker, co-curator of POW! Play on Words (a regular spoken word platform in London along with Colin B. Osborn) and Senior Lecturer at University of the Arts London.His debut poetry collection ’See Me: An (Almost) Autobiography’ was published by London Poetry Books in November 2024. Other publications of his poetry include The Atticus Review, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Otherwise, You Are Here - The Journal of Creative Geography, Queerlings, Streetcake. Step Away Magazine, London Grip and Flight of the DragonFly. His chapbook ‘Queering the Landscape’ was shortlisted for the 2024 Broken Spine Chapbook Poetry Competition. His experimental performance poetry films have been selected for many international film festivals and prizes since 2019 including shortlisted for Best Poetry Film at the Out-Spoken Poetry Prize 2023, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London.
Though Canadian at birth, Sophie is long-settled in Medway and has been painting for the last fifteen years. Her Dutch father was an “abstract” artist, painting in oils. Her maternal grandparents met as students at the Royal College of Art; they then settled in Medway where he became a teacher at Rochester Art college. The main medium Sophie uses is acrylic paint, but she also uses pastels, oils, and inks. Her style could be described as more figurative but with a degree of abstraction. The use of bright colours makes the work expressive and engaging; which is compounded by a narrative. Sophie’s appreciation of nature and of the built environment is often reflected in her work, as also are her wider interests in history, philosophy, and global affairs.
