Gravy

Through site-specific live events and an indie zine, GRAVY (2023-24) brought a feast of poetry to unique venues around South-East London, including a ship, a cinema and an outdoor stage that once hosted Bob Marley.

Poems & zines

PDFs of our print publications, and poems performed at our live events

GRAVY Print Issues

Poems, art & other things

from ‘The Minotaur’

by Joe Carrick-Varty

‘The Head’

by Tristram Fane Saunders

from ‘Freak Sonnets’

by Dzifa Benson

in gravy #6:

janette ayachi

‘Insomnia allows me to try on
different pronunciations of breath
where to look if not the looking-glass’

— From Where Things Are When They Are Not Happening, in GRAVY Issue #6

FUTURE & PAST

Events

Quarterly happenings in unusual spaces around south-east London

What?Where?When?Who?May I attend?
Past Events:
#1: GRAVY GranulesMorocco Bound, SE17pm, Weds 17 May, 2023Dzifa Benson, Caroline Bird, Joe Carrick-Varty, Edgar Kunz, Camille Ralphs
#2: GRAVY AlfrescoCrystal Palace Bowl, SE192pm, Sat 21 Oct, 2023John Clegg, Jade Cuttle, Abigail Parry, Ruth Wiggins, Isobel Williams
#3: Christmas GRAVYBridge House Theatre, SE207.30pm, Sun 10 Dec, 2023Amy Acre, Alice Grey, Luke Kennard, Billie Manning, Declan Ryan
#4: GRAVY BoatTheatreship, E147pm, Tue 20 Feb, 2024Abigail Parry, Joelle Taylor, Fran Lock, Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Reid Dudley Peirson, Hannah Silva
#5: Natural GRAVYCrystal Palace Bowl, SE194pm, Sat 24 Aug, 2024Tara Rai, Kerensa, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Ian Humphreys, John McCullough, Hannah Copley
#6: GRAVYPLEXCinema Museum, SE116pm, Sun 13 Oct, 2024Film-poem readings: Dzifa Benson, Fran Lock, Abigail Parry, Chrissy Williams

Poem-film screenings: Janette Ayachi, Calum Rodger, Julian Stannard, Ross Sutherland
#7: Xmas GRAVYNew Cross House, SE147pm, Tue 10 Dec, 2024Henry St Leger, Rushika Wick, Timothy Fox, Dzifa Benson, Asher Baker
#8 Fair/trade GRAVYFree Verse Poetry Book & Magazine Fair, St Columba’s Church, SW111am-6.30pm, Sat 26 April, 2025The GRAVY team

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DELICIOUS WORDS?

Then check out The Little Review, a new magazine about poetry featuring several familiar names and faces from GRAVY.