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Small Plates

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Chris Cambell & Jem Henderson

£9.99

£14.00

RRP £12.00

ISBN 978-1-915760-47-0

Small Plates is a fine dining, poetic experience, challenging conventional conception on what food is and how we interact with it. Here, Chris Cambell and Jem Henderson present food as medicine, food as home, food as a global shared experience in myriad forms. They examine the role food plays in a fine dining establishment far removed from home cooking and the liminal spaces between different socioeconomic classes, the different stages of their lives, and the differences in each others’ experiences. This is a beautiful, unnerving, and exciting show, as tender and poignant as it is innovative and unabashedly experimental.

PRAISE FOR SMALL PLATES

Small Plates by Chris Cambell and Jem Henderson is a humorous and forward-thinking pamphlet from two poets, one whom describes himself as ‘non-binary’ the other who describes themself as ‘Gender Queer’. The poems flow in a stream of consciousness style with a pleasantly daft understanding of reality. ‘is that it?’ ask the two poets in the standout poem ‘Like Your Last Dollars Week After Payday’. In the immortal words…

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Chris Cambell (he/they) is a nonbinary, Native American immigrant with ADHD. He writes poetry for performance and publication. His work examines the stories society overlooks, highlights the inequality that this demonstrates, and explores how we can use our creativity to break this cycle. Chris is a slam champion, has been published in anthologies internationally, and has competed in the UK National Poetry Slam finals twice, so far. …

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