Name: Hard Work
Start: 2026-04-26T16:00:00+01:00
Location: Upstairs at The Castle

Hard Work #24
Jo Morrison
Nell Osborne
Amy Evans Bauer
Newham Folk Archive
Benjamin Whateley & Jérémie Wenger
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JO MORRISON
After practicing her yarl for some time, this Essex-based vocalist and sound maker (with a penchant for costume) became a student at The Other MA (TOMA) an alternative art school based in Southend. She’s also part of the Noisy Women Present collective, regularly plays with the London Improvisors Orchestra and the Lo-Fi Improvised Music Workshop, and created the 36-second viral Instagram reel which was filmed in a YHA dorm in Hexham, the one with an electric blue mattress that uttered things. The unconventional eros of the work yield an approving nod from a follower in need, while another observed that it’s what unemployment looks like.
NELL OSBORNE
Nell Osborne is a poet, novelist and researcher of experimental writing. In 2024, she published a poetry pamphlet, Thank You For Everything, with Monitor Books. In 2025, she published her debut novel, Ghost Driver, with Moist Books, which won the Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize 2026.
AMY EVANS BAUER
Amy is a poet and musician based in London. Her publications include the micro-chapbook Suffrajitstu (Earthbound, 2024) and the artist's book The Report of the Iraq Enquiry: Poetic Summary (Larynx, 2017). and umbels (Jonathan Williams Chapbook prize, 2020) and PASS PORT (Shearsman, 2018) form the transcript of her at-sea, cross-border installation SOUND((ING))S, which she has performed at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London and waterfront locations internationally. She currently teaches Creative Writing and Publishing at De Montfort University, co-organises the Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar at the University of London's Institute of English Studies, and is the publisher of Larynx Press.
NEWHAM FOLK ARCHIVE
Newham Folk Archive blend improvised sound, oral history, folklore, truth and myth. Adam Kinsey and Shona Handley are the founders and current guardians of the Newham Folk Archive. @newhamfolkarchive
BENJAMIN WHATELEY
Benjamin Whateley is a developer and computer musician whose aesthetic and process are influenced by club music.
JÉRÉMIE WENGER
Jérémie Wenger is a London-based writer. Impasses around expression led to constrained/generative strategies as positive impediments to writing, and, later, neural textuality, feeding a reflection on AI and its consequences for literature and the self. His texts have appeared in ‘gorse’, ‘Pamenar Online Magazine’, ‘ToCall’, ‘GRASS’, ‘Strings’, ‘Vernacular’, ‘minor literature[s]’, ‘TILT’, ‘Still Point’, ‘The New River’ and ‘xCoAx’. @jchwenger / jeremiewenger.com