Accidental Poetry Roadie
Accidental Poetry Roadie is a book of journeys through land, language, and loss.
These fifteen poems walk the through marshy moorlands, glacial valleys, and snake-haunted ruins, where meaning slips its skin and language coils back on itself. From words that falter, to footsteps that persist, the poems ask what it means to belong to a place, to be shaped by it, and to leave it behind. This is a book for those who listen to rivers, and who know that even the simplest journey can change you.
Step carefully. The words bite back.
Accidental Poetry Roadie is a 24-page book, 132x199mm, printed on high quality paper and individually bound with hand-stitching. It is limited to an edition of 50 numbered copies.
Please note that orders of this book will ship from week commencing 17th February 2025.
Daniel Sumption
Daniel Sumption is a writer, artist, and explorer of strange landscapes, both real and imagined. His work meanders through folklore, psychogeography, poetry, and roleplaying games, always seeking the peculiar edges of storytelling.
His bibliography is as eclectic as his interests. In King Arthur vs Devil Kitty (illustrated by Maximillian Hartley), he resurrects a medieval French tale in the style of a 1970s picture book, complete with Monty Python-esque absurdity. Mostly Harmless Meetings offers 100 folkloric encounters for roleplaying games, where gossiping fleas and aristocratic frogs replace the usual combat fodder. Gespenwald is an adventure set in a ghostly forest of undead mycelium, appearing for only one night each year.
Beyond the realm of games, Daniel’s curiosity leads him into artistic and poetic experiments. Learning to Draw Trees is a year-long journey of sketching trees, culminating in a book that blends art, introspection, and even a tree-based roleplaying game. His poetry collection, Accidental Poetry Roadie, maps the intersections of land, loss, and language, while Working Nights is a photographic tribute to the nocturnal party-life of Sheffield and London in the early 2000s.
Daniel’s work celebrates the liminal and the overlooked: the places between night and day, past and present, fiction and folklore. Whether through words, drawings, or game mechanics, he invites readers to step off the path, to listen to the trees, and to embrace the mysteries that lie just beyond the everyday.
