Judith E Wilson Centre for Poetry & Poetics
Poetry Event: Wednesday 28th October, 2026
Redell Olsen and Karen Sandhu
Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, 5. – 6.30 followed by wine and refreshments in the social space.
Redell Olsen poet, performance artist, film-maker and book artist. Her work incorporates various kinds of book work, alongside images, texts for performance, films, and site-specific works. Her work combines avant-garde, modernist and contemporary poetics with feminist theory, ecology, art and performance practices. Her MA course Poetic Practice has been highly influential on numerous poets and writers. Her poetry publications include: Fossil Oil: a book of hours (2025), Frownlands, 1969 (2024), Weather, Whether Plume of the Volants (Book and Exhibition 2021), Film Poems (Les Figues, 2014), Punk Faun: a bar rock pastel (subpress, 2012), Book of the Fur(Rempress, 2000), and Secure Portable Space (Reality Street, 2004).
Karen Sandhu is an artist and poet with a PhD in prose poetry, archives, performance, and art object from Royal Holloway, University of London. Her publications include the performance poem Baby 19 (intergraphia books); artist’s book Poetic Fragments from the Irritating Archive(Guillemot Press, 2022) and visual poetry collection, young girls! (the 87 Press, 2021). Her artworks are anthologised in Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry (Timglaset Editions, 2021) and Writing Utopia (Hesterglock Press, 2020). She has collaborated with the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Barbican, Flat Time House and Camden People’s Theatre (London), Arnolfini (Bristol) and Galerie Eric Dupont (Paris). She has also written for The Blue Notebook: Journal for Artists’ Books.
