Publications

Joy as Tiresome Vandalism’s What’s the Best?

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New from if p then q…

The ultimate in poetry card gaming. 34 exquisite, professionally made, poetry collection trading cards selected by if p then q illustrated by Simon Taylor of Joy as Tiresome Vandalism.

Play with the entire family. Enjoy with friends. Play at work or on the train.

Includes all your favourite poets: Stein, Pound, Coleridge & Wordsworth, Schwitters, Plath, Lear, Shakespeare, Thurston, Dickinson, Clarke, Williams, Crapsey, Jenks, Ch’ing Chao, Ginsberg, Blake, Berryman, Cummings, Po, Seuss, Atkins, Christensen, Issa, O’Hara, Stevens, Terry, Berrigan, Queneau, Ono, Bataille, Jeffers, Buddhist monks, Niedecker, Cendrars

£10

Visit the website HERE

S J Fowler: Recipes

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Out now on The Red Ceilings Press.

Incredibly, SJ Fowler’s recipes turn into poems as soon as you read them: exotic, nonsensical, provocative, furiously funny, but also tender and intimate (in their own way).

Don’t try this at home.   – Frédéric Forte (member of the Oulipo)
If this is some of what he ate where, then SJ Fowler also swallowed Antonin Artaud whole, calmed his stomach with bumblebees and psychedelics instead of milk of magnesia, and then started pogoing. These recipes are in the grand tradition of The Futurist Cookbook (offeringchickenfiat; elasticake; simultaneous fruit), and Harry Mathews’ famous “Country Cooking” (bludgeoned with an underwater boomerang)– and provide food for thought for the hungriest of readers. Binge and purge!  This little book has completely cured my lactose intolerance.           – Dr Tim Atkins (author of “The Atkins Diet”)
SJ Fowler squeezes the lemon and lime and shame all over Pee Wee Herman’s full English breakfast. He drops a pineapple in the Virgin Mary’s favoured bucket. He has done things you should not cook and done them deliberately with aubergines. He cleaves to the bat and the ruined ape. These are not necessarily bad things.     – Tom Jenks

Robert Hampson: out of sight

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Robert Hampson’s “out of sight” now available from the crater press. Robert Hampson is Professor of Modern Literature at RHUL, where he teaches on the MA in Poetic Practice. His ‘Assembled Fugitives: Selected Poems 1973-98’ appeared from Stride in 2000. His most recent publication was ‘an explanation of colours’ (Veer, 2011).

‘out of sight’, like the poster-poem ‘map-loading: 51:31N 00:05W’ (2008), is an exercise in procedural writing and recriture. The single sentence, with its shifting phrasal linkages, responds to recent work by Vanessa Place. It’s also the record of a mis-spent decade.  £3. Copies are available at www.craterpress.co.uk.

zimZalla 016: Female Versions of Christ by j/j hastain

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Nine texts accompanied by eight illuminations. The texts, printed on high quality textured card, are discrete but kindred blocks, obliquely referenced and counterpointed by the illuminations, which are full colour collages, printed on transparencies. The texts and illuminations are in labelled envelopes, with these envelopes in turn housed inside a full colour outer envelope. More information, including how to buy, can be found at the zimZalla site.

Maggie O’Sullivan at eclipse

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An important addition to the essential online archive sees eight of Maggie O’Sullivan’s early books now available for free reading and download:

Concerning Spheres, 1982
An Incomplete Natural History, 1984
Un-Assuming Personas, 1985
A Natural History in 3 Incomplete Parts, 1985
From the Handbook of That & Furriery, 1986
Divisions of Labour, 1986
States of Emergency, 1987
Unofficial Word, 1988

plus  eXcLa (1993, written in collaboration with Bruce Andrews). The first eight titles are also available in black and white facsimile in Maggie’s book Body of Work (Reality Street, 2006).

Seaside Special

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Seaside Special, a set of 31 literary postcards by Tom Jenks and Chris McCabe with an all star cast including John Betjeman, Allen Ginsberg and an unfeasibly large sausage, is now available for £10 plus £2.50 post and packaging in the UK and £5.00 post and packaging elsewhere. To view the project online and buy a set, go here. Just the thing for a donkey ride with a maiden aunt.

Like This Press

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David R. Morgan
Newman

4 pamphlets in one box
11 colour postcards

text and image
card covers, paper
120pp
July 2012

printed in an edition of 30 hand-printed and numbered collector’s edition wooden boxes and 500 hand-printed cardboard boxes

Free p&p on all orders. More here.