Sam Kemp is an experimental poet. His work has been published, anthologized and exhibited globally and he teaches Creative Writing at Northeastern University London, where he leads Electric Frontiers: Digital Creative Writing, and the Final Year Project and Publishing Horizons courses.
He specializes in digital poetics and visual poetry and other such nonsense, and his creative work has been featured in Streetcake Magazine, the Mechanics Institute Review and Lighthouse. His chapbook, Maps to Arkham is available now with Nat1 Publishing.
He placed 4th in the 2020 Streetcake Experimental Writing prize, was shortlisted for the 2023 Crimson Spine Pocket Book award, and got an honorable mention in the 2024 Wishing Jewel Prize for innovative writing. He hosts the Radical Writing Podcast, which brings academics and students from different departments together to find common ground in new and iconic experimental writing.
His critical work has been featured in Phil Smith’s Walking Bodies, Kate North and Francis Gilbert’s Writing in Practice, and Graeme Harper’s New Writing.
He’s from the South West of England and is fascinated with all things to do with landscape, walking, neo-Luddism, digital poetry, and the urban (as well as the rural…).
Sam Kemp Poetry 