Arts Junction

A smorgasbord of poetry, music, art, dance and theatre
Monday 11th November for Arts Junction 7.30-10pm


Another helping of cultural kedgeree to set you up for the month ahead…

Camilla Lambert lives in Arundel, and has been writing poetry since 2007 on retirement from NHS management. She has been widely published, with a pamphlet (Grapes in the Crater) and many poems in poetry journals and anthologies, and some highly placed in national competitions. She has run several poetry competitions, more recently for the South Downs Poetry Festival, and for 5 years co-organised the Binsted Arts Festival, celebrating local Sussex countryside. She is now co-organising the Arundel Literary Festival coming up in March 2025.


Ken Jones has been writing poetry in fits and starts since University (Birmingham University 1970). He lived in Ventura California for 8 years becoming a part of the poetry scene there and hosted an Open Mic in Thousand Oaks; he was also a board member and co-founder of the Ventura County Poetry Project. Since returning to England in 2020 he has become a trustee and founding member of Words Out Loud, a Charitable Trust based in Chichester to promote the Spoken Word which holds a monthly Open Mic. and a cabaret style event called Seven Up featuring seven performers performing for seven minutes across the range of performance art. He has been published in several magazines in the USA and the UK and has a small collection, One Step Ahead, published by Prolific Press.


Nic Saunders studied at the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with the prestigious teachers James Gibb and Edith Vogel. He is an Associate of the GSMD and was recipient of the Edith Vogel Prize in 1990. He has worked for many years in the performing world as a concert pianist and also a jazz musician, playing with some of the most eminent figures in the music world today. His love of many genres has lead to many varied performances in the classical, contemporary and jazz worlds.


Sue Paterson has a background in social work. Her first degree was in philosophy and those knotty questions of free will and consciousness are present in her writing. Her story The Happy Day Restaurant was shortlisted for the Bridport Flash Fiction Prize of 2016. Sue’s interests include playing the board game Go, singing in the local choir and entering her runner beans into the local Flower & Produce Show.

Chris Warren-Adamson interviews Sue about her book The Department of Certainty.


David Storey was a Chi High boy way back in the Dark Ages. He was top of his year in Economics at London University but sitting at a desk did not appeal. His foreign adventures have included being caught up in Bangladesh’s independence struggle, negotiating with General Galtieri’s future Foreign Minister in Argentina, navigating the social and economic chaos following Portugal’s 1974 revolution and guiding the successful execution of the then largest ever industrial investment in the Arabian Gulf. He finally settled back in the UK as a provincial magazine editor.

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