We’re back! With our smorgasbord of poetry, music, art and theatre.
This month we are delighted to welcome
Rebecca Zeman
Rebecca’s first poetry pamphlet, Preloved, was published by Grey Hen in early 2026. She has also been published in The Frogmore Papers, on the top deck of the Brighton & Hove 5A bus and in several anthologies, most recently Paekakariki Press’s 2024 collection And So We Grow.
She was highly commended in this year’s Arundel Literary Festival Poetry Competition and shortlisted in the 2025 Brighton & Hove Arts Council Poetry Competition. She has read her work at the Bloomsbury Festival, London’s Foundling Museum and Oxford’s Story Museum.
Rebecca has a Creative Writing (Poetry) MA from the University of East Anglia and lives in Arundel with her husband and whippet. She trained as a journalist and works as a writer and teacher.
Christopher Horton
Christopher Horton’ s poems have appeared in The North, Magma, and New Statesman. He was a prize winner in the National Poetry Competition and the Bridport Prize. He won first prize in the South Downs Poetry Festival Competition in 2021 and had another poem highly commended in the same year of the competition.
He was also commended in the Verve Poetry Festival Competition two years running, the Ware Poetry Competition for two different poems in the same year, Highly Commended in the Walter Swan Award and shortlisted for the Canterbury Festival Poetry of the Year Competition two years running. He was awarded third place in the Frogmore Poetry Prize and the Ware Poetry Competition. He has written poetry reviews for the London Magazine, Wild Court and Poetry London. His chapbook, Perfect Timing, was released by tall-lighthouse press in 2021 and a second collection, Clutter Jar, was released by Broken Sleep Books in 2025.
AI – Artistic Integrity vs Artificial Intelligence
More and more now AI is being used at work, in writing contracts, making music and art and social media posts – for better of worse. Local art curator and gallery owner James Stewart considers the better and the worse perspectives in terms of its use in the world of art.
Based in Sussex and performing across the South East, Keziah is a vintage vocalist whose artistry spans the wonderful jazz classics from the golden era.
Influenced by the complex riffs and runs of Ella Fitzgerald, the expressive phrasing of Nat King Cole, the swing of Frank Sinatra, and the warm tone of Judy Garland, Keziah brings intimacy and romance to every performance. Her emotive voice and vintage styling will transport you to the 1940s smoky jazz clubs.