About this Event
Free entry
Sean Roy Parker’s debut collection of poetry 'Stewarding' is a generous account of hopeful ways to eat and ways to live. The artists and writer will be in conversation with Rory Cook Editor of Monitor Books and Jonathan Casciani, Director of Beam Editions to explore themes of the book his creative practice alongside some readings. Delicious drinks and snacks are provided by Small Food Bakery.
About Stewarding
Stewarding maps the joyful and embodied ways we can resist oppressive structures that control our food, housing, and socialisation. We begin in an abandoned school, previously the union headquarters for a coal board, which became a legal guardianship, now condemned. We witness acts of communing between human inhabitants, composting worms, microbes in fermentation, and learn working class histories along the way. Here, complex networks emerge between agents, and thrive, disrupting the monolithic power of corporate extraction.
stewarding is full of sensitive advice and astute observations for scavengers, foragers, worm farmers and citizen scientists; you’ll need this when you are knee-deep in last year’s dirt and dead flowers. – Lars Holdhus, Degrowth For Artists
Event Format
- Drinks and snacks from 6 pm
- Talk: 7pm - 8pm
– Drinks continue until 9pm
About Sean Roy Parker
Sean Roy Parker is an artist, writer, and landworker whose eco-critical work is generated through nourishing daily relationships with (more-than-) humans in the struggle for food justice and land access. He has recently had projects at Piccalilli Gallery (London), Two Queens (Leicester), Primary (Nottingham), and Pols (Valencia, Spain). For three years, he was a core member of The Field, an experimental artist-run living project in an ex-National Coal Board and Steiner School building in Derbyshire. He is a 2024 recipient of an Axis Fellowship and a Paul Hamlyn Visual Artist Award. stewarding is his first collection of poetry.
https://www.monitorbooks.co.uk/books/stewarding/
About Monitor Books
Monitor Books is a publication platform for poetry, etc., founded in 2019. We publish necessary, idiosyncratic writing in bespoke editions.
The press is edited by Rory Cook and Rachael Allen. Designers and friends include Alan Fielden, Rich James, Joseph Haigh, Joe Hales, John Newton. Website photographs are by Liam Chilton.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Beam - Art, Books & Coffee, 33 Seely Road, Nottingham, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
