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The Medway Delta Press About Us The Medway Delta Press is a new non-profit making publishing house dedicated to promoting the work of North Kent’s finest artists, authors and musicians in and beyond the boundaries of the Medway Towns. With a special interest in those voices that emerge from the Medway Scene and Stuckism / Remodernism. A very brief history of the Medway Scene: In the late 1970s and early 1980s a movement of writers, artist and musicians emerged from the Medway area of North Kent, England: Spearheaded by the Medway Poets Group (Billy Childish, Sexton Ming, Charles Thomson, Bill Lewis, Rob Earl and Miriam Carney). This was augmented by the Medway Sound, a style of music that has its roots in punk, blues and the art song or chanson. The main exponent of this being Billy Childish and his various groups (including The Pop Rivets, The Milkshakes, The Black Hands, Thee Mighty Caesars, The Headcoats, The Buff Medways). Other groups soon sprang into existence such as The Prisoners (the most famous member being James Taylor, now of the James Taylor Quartet), The Daggermen, The Dentists, Wipe Out, Armitage Shanks, Auntie Vegetable, The Singing Loins, The Delmonas, The Solar Flares plus many others. In 1998 Charles Thomson and Billy Childish founded the art movement: The Stuckists which included ex-Medway Poets Bill Lewis and Sexton Ming. The founding group consisted of 13 painters; this has now grown into a world-wide movement of over 100 groups. Parallel to this other poetic voices emerged from the Medway Towns notably Phil Kane, Zara Carpenter, The Medway Mermaids (Women's Writers group), as well as poets Wolf Howard, Philip Absolon and Joe Machine (who are also Stuckist painters). The Medway Delta Press will be publishing Joe’s new collection of stories in the New Year. Three years ago Bill Lewis and Dave Wise founded the Urban Fox Press which has re-ignited the Medway Scene. Publishing several ground breaking anthologies and the opening of the Smoking Dog Club, a venue for performers. For more information on The Medway Poets, Stuckism, Remodernism, Bill Lewis, Billy Childish, Sexton Ming, Joe Machine, Charles Thomson check out Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. In 2005 Bill Lewis left the Urban Fox Press to pursue
other projects.
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