Stephen Sunderland
@stephensunderland.bsky.social
I write poetry, prose, screen(and radio)play // PhD on surrealist women’s fiction // Novel: The Cinema Beneath the Lake// Poetry: Eye Movement (Steel Incisors) Oneiroscope (Kingston University Press) Refrains (Steel Incisors)
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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
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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a form of meat that sits around, goitrous and lame in bars
October 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
a form of meat that sits around, goitrous and lame in bars
How could I miss out @tomjenksuk.bsky.social ?? 🙏
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
September 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
How could I miss out @tomjenksuk.bsky.social ?? 🙏
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
September 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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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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...
September 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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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@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...
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September 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
@stephensunderland.bsky.social - Artaud Update - allenginsberg.org/2025/09/t-s-4/
New essay for anyone interested in Artaud & cinepoetry!
www.blackheraldpress.com/post/artaud-...
Many thanks to @blackheraldpress.bsky.social 🙏🙏🙏🔆🔆🔆
www.blackheraldpress.com/post/artaud-...
Many thanks to @blackheraldpress.bsky.social 🙏🙏🙏🔆🔆🔆
September 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM
New essay for anyone interested in Artaud & cinepoetry!
www.blackheraldpress.com/post/artaud-...
Many thanks to @blackheraldpress.bsky.social 🙏🙏🙏🔆🔆🔆
www.blackheraldpress.com/post/artaud-...
Many thanks to @blackheraldpress.bsky.social 🙏🙏🙏🔆🔆🔆
Collages made yesterday and today from National Geographics gifted in 2021 🔆 #Surrealism #thecinemabeneaththelake
August 22, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Collages made yesterday and today from National Geographics gifted in 2021 🔆 #Surrealism #thecinemabeneaththelake
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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
August 13, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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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Also looking forward to this! 📚🎬
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! 🙏🔆🖤🥳
August 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Also looking forward to this! 📚🎬
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! 🙏🔆🖤🥳
August 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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! 🙏🔆🖤🥳
The inspiration to write The Cinema Beneath the Lake - and the final product #surrealism
July 29, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The inspiration to write The Cinema Beneath the Lake - and the final product #surrealism
🙏🔆
"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
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– from The Cinema Beneath the Lake — Stephen Sunderland
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The Cinema Beneath the Lake — Stephen Sunderland
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July 22, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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"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 — @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
July 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
"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 — @stephensunderland.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/07/22/t...
July 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
‘How to access a jellyfish’ (artwork, The Cinema beneath the Lake) Out today! www.lulu.com/shop/stephen...
July 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
‘How to access a jellyfish’ (artwork, The Cinema beneath the Lake) Out today! www.lulu.com/shop/stephen...
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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/
@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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July 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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/
@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/
Trailer for film-novel The Cinema Beneath the Lake 👇
July 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Trailer for film-novel The Cinema Beneath the Lake 👇
Kind words about the book 🙏🔆👇
July 21, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Kind words about the book 🙏🔆👇
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
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
July 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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
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
Extract from The Cinema Beneath the Lake channels Leonora Carrington via bee perversion, mason jar husbandry, matriarchal conspiracies and an imaginary beheading. 🙃
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
— 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
July 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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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”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...
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...
July 12, 2025 at 11:37 AM
”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...
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...
www.3ammagazine.com/3am/a-surrea...
Really pleased to have this review of Some Deer by @vikshirley.bsky.social at 3:AM now! 🖤🙏🔆
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...
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July 12, 2025 at 10:21 AM
www.3ammagazine.com/3am/a-surrea...
Really pleased to have this review of Some Deer by @vikshirley.bsky.social at 3:AM now! 🖤🙏🔆
Really pleased to have this review of Some Deer by @vikshirley.bsky.social at 3:AM now! 🖤🙏🔆
blackboxmanifold.sites.sheffield.ac.uk
Really pleased to have four poems from my collection, STOAT, in the new edition of Blackbox Manifold! 🖤🙏🔆
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
July 12, 2025 at 10:05 AM
blackboxmanifold.sites.sheffield.ac.uk
Really pleased to have four poems from my collection, STOAT, in the new edition of Blackbox Manifold! 🖤🙏🔆
Really pleased to have four poems from my collection, STOAT, in the new edition of Blackbox Manifold! 🖤🙏🔆
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! 🖤🔆🙏
June 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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! 🖤🔆🙏