Stephen Sunderland: extracts from ‘Unforgettable Singing Animal’

Stephen Sunderland

Dr Stephen Sunderland is an academic and writer. He is the author of three BBC radio dramas and his AHRC-funded practice-led PhD, ‘Diving to The Cinema Beneath the Lake: a novel as immersive, synthetic-magical exploration of the surrealist prose of Claude Cahun, Ithell Colquhoun and Leonora Carrington’ was completed in July 2022. His interests lie at the intersection of avant-garde creative practices with creative therapies, anti-psychiatry and affect theory. He is currently working towards the completion of his first post-doctoral research project, entitled ‘The Everyday Marvellous’: Collaborative Surrealist Methods for Creative Therapy, funded by The University of Salford. Recent creative publications include the visual poetry collections Eye Movement (Steel Incisors, 2022), Oneiroscope (Kingston University Press, 2023) and Refrains (Steel Incisors, 2023).