Adam Kammerling
Adam Kammerling is an award winning poet, interdisciplinary artist and educator. He has performed at Glastonbury, Latitude and Big Chill Festivals, travelled to NY, Poland, Wales, Ireland and Scotland. He has been published in New York in arts magazine, New York Niceties, and in the UK in the Morning Star and in Rhyming Thunder, Burning Eye Publishing’s debut poetry collection. He has independently released rap albums, the Letters EP and Don’t Move
His most recent works include Seder, his debut poetry collection which was a National Jewish Book Award finalist, and its theatre adaptation which toured nationally; Shall We Take This Outside, a spoken-word/dance show; and Inside!, a piece of poetry/rave theatre commissioned by Centrepoint and the Saatchi Gallery.
He was the founder and program lead of The Nest, an interdisciplinary arts program delivered nationwide in partnership with The Fostering Network between 2019 and 2025.
2020 National Jewish Book Award finalist
‘A beautiful lyric collection’ — Ilya Kaminsky
This innovative debut collection from Adam Kammerling is an archival and deft account of a person reckoning with their heritage and family history. Hybrid, dexterous and informed, Kammerling retraces his Jewish ancestry as poems fluctuate through time and space, leaving us with a forbidding sense that what has changed over recent decades is not enough.
‘To say that Seder is a beautiful, moving book would be true. But what does it mean? It means Seder is a book of very lyric poems where silences say as much as words do. It is a book of grief, that opens the grief up — no, blows it up — from the inside. Seder is a book of memory, the kind that refuses to leave us: a book wherein historical trauma is all too real, echoing our own present moment — echoing with a warning. And, yet, there is also tenderness, there is “love showing me the ground where I could lie down.” Indeed, a beautiful lyric collection.’ — Ilya Kaminsky