Ship and Mitre, 133 Dale St, Liverpool, L2 2JH. Thursday, 31 May 2012, 20:00.
Readings by JT Welsch, Steve Van Hagen, Catherine Woodward, Luke Kennard, Richard Watt, Jess Green and Colette Sensier to launch Holdfire‘s first 8 pamphlets by these seven writers, plus Emily Critchley.
zimZalla object 014 is A never ending poem read with dice that goes on to explore the possibilities of human intervention within the context & illusion of chance by Stephen Emmerson. This is a fully playable board game which generates multiple aleatory readings of poem text fragments. These readings are created by dice rolls and disrupted by disaster cards. The set also includes a single player version of the game. In total, the game box contains a full colour fabric board, three game counters, a six-sided die, a twelve-sided die, thirty-six poem cards, twelve disaster cards and a single player text booklet. Available now for £5 including postage and packaging. More at the zimZalla site.
New e-book by nick-e melville published by Very Small Kitchen.
Available at the LINK
Steve McCaffery PANOPTICON. BookThug rev. edn. 2011. £15
Taking its inspiration from Jeremy Bentham’s ‘Panopticon Papers’, McCaffery’s Panopticon shatters all omnivision in a tour de force of formal innovation, theoretical comment and narrative critique. In Panopticon narrative stutters, repeats itself, sequence is deranged and complicated by a multimedia presence on the page of grids, film bands and acoustic channels. On its first appearance Charles Bernstein hailed the book as ‘perhaps the exemplary “antiabsorptive work” and William McPheron claimed it as “an extraordinary act of revolution and charity”. Out of print for more than twenty years, this new edition has been revised extensively and is accompanied by an afterword written by McCaffery himself.
OPEN LETTER 14.7, Fall 2011: Breakthrough Nostalgia: Reading Steve McCaffery Then and Now. Ed. Stephen Cain. 172pp. £10.50
W/ contributions by Geoffrey Hlibchuk, Stephen Voyce, Gregory Betts, Tim Conley, Jason Starnes, Alessandra Capperdoni, Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Matt Carrington, Lori Emerson, Andy Weaver, Christian Bök, Derek Beaulieu, Alan Halsey, Peter Jaeger + new poetry & prose by SMcC.
Allen Fisher PROPOSALS, 1-35. Poem-image-commentary. 76pp incl. 35 images in colour. Spanner 2010. £9.50
Allen Fisher STROLL & STRUT STEP. 16pp + 3 images in colour. Spanner 2004. £7.50
Post-free in UK. Payment by cheque or Paypal.
Orders to info@westhousebooks.co.uk
New issue out now featuring:
Depart is the new website for Department Publications, run by Richard Barrett and Simon Howard. Henceforth Department will concentrate on the print publication of books /pamphlets.
From March to November 2012 an exhibition of work by leading small press, Coracle, made during the period 1989 to 2012, will tour four UK venues. Printed in Norfolk will showcase artists’ books, poetry, critical documents, ephemera, catalogues and anthologies.
The exhibition opens in Norwich at The Gallery at Norwich University College of the Arts (formerly The Norwich Gallery) before going on to Site Gallery in Sheffield, Shandy Hall in North Yorkshire (home of the Laurence Sterne Trust) and the Saison Poetry Library on London’s Southbank.
Poet, artist and editor Simon Cutts founded, and works under the name of Coracle. A key player in UK arts and publishing since the mid 1970s, Cutts and long-term co-director Erica Van Horn have recently been based in Ireland, working internationally on Coracle exhibitions, publications and other collaborations.
Printed in Norfolk brings together works produced by Coracle during a twenty year collaboration with trade printer Crome and Akers in Kings Lynn, Norfolk. Exhibition tour organiser Helen Mitchell said;
“This exhibition is the first chance for many years to see a significant body of Coracle’s work in the UK mainland. Our choice of venues, which balances two visual arts and two literary venues reflects these different aspects to Coracle’s work. ”
Each venue will host a book room as part of the exhibition, where visitors will be able sit and leaf through books. Poets whose work will be featured include John Bevis, Thomas A Clark, Simon Cutts, Harry Gilonis, Susan Howe, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Spike Hawkins, Cralan Kelder, Thomas Meyer, Stuart Mills, William Minor and Jonathan Williams.
The exhibition catalogue will be published by RGAP (Research Group for Artists Publications) and will chart the influential role Simon Cutts has played in UK and international arts and poetry since the 1960s as well as Coracle’s suite of Norfolk publications.
Printed in Norfolk is being funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, Henry Moore Foundation, The Elephant Trust and Norfolk County Council.
For further information: www.printedinnorfolk.org.uk
Another new Manchester based press. This time Like This Press
Like This is a new and independent press based in Manchester committed to publishing high quality and beautifully designed books that do things just a little bit differently.
We are particularly interested in poetry, prose poetry, fragments, stories (the more curious the better), interviews, essays, and books as objects. There is an editorial leaning towards experimental traditions. We want work that is formally unusual, questioning, unexpected, and challenging; work that is interested in thinking about the hows and whys of literary practice, the place of books in the world, the relationship between writing and living, art and life, between literature, art, philosophy, religion, science, history, medicine. We especially like work that blends innovation with accessibility and wonder.
OUT NOW from Les Figues Press
Conceptual writing is emerging as a vital 21st century literary movement and I’ll Drown My Book represents the contributions of women in this defining moment. Edited by Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place, I’ll Drown My Book takes its name from a poem by Bernadette Mayer, appropriating Shakespeare. The book includes work by 64 women from 10 countries, with contributors’ responses to the question—What is conceptual writing?—appearing alongside their work. I’ll Drown My Book offers feminist perspectives within this literary phenomenon.
CONTRIBUTORS:
Kathy Acker, Oana Avasilichioaei & Erin Moure, Dodie Bellamy, Lee Ann Brown, Angela Carr, Monica de la Torre, Danielle Dutton, Renee Gladman, Jen Hofer, Bernadette Mayer, Sharon Mesmer, Laura Mullen, Harryette Mullen, Deborah Richards, Juliana Spahr, Cecilia Vicuna, Wendy Walker, Jen Bervin, Inger Christiansen, Marcella Durand, Katie Degentesh, Nada Gordon, Jennifer Karmin, Mette Moestrup, Yedda Morrison, Anne Portugal, Joan Retallack, Cia Rinne, Giovanni Singleton, Anne Tardos, Hannah Weiner, Christine Wertheim, Norma Cole, Debra Di Blasi, Stacy Doris & Lisa Robertson, Sarah Dowling, Bhanu Kapil, Rachel Levitsky, Laura Moriarty, Redell Olsen, Chus Pato, Julie Patton, Kristin Prevallet, a.rawlings, Ryoko Seikiguchi, Susan M. Schultz, Rosmarie Waldrop, Renee Angle, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Tina Darragh, Judith Goldman, Susan Howe, Maryrose Larkin, Tracie Morris, Sawako Nakayasu, M. NourbeSe Philip, Jena Osman, kathryn l. pringle, Frances Richard, Kim Rosenfeld, and Rachel Zolf.
The Only Life by Robert Sheppard and Soma | Sema by David Toms. Available now from Knives Forks and Spoons Press.
For £40 (UK/Europe) or £50 (outside Europe), you will receive copies of all four Reality Street books published during the year. Your name will also be listed in the back of the books ( and on relevant publicity material, unless you prefer to remain anonymous. Books scheduled for 2012 are:
More details at the Reality Street site.
Knives Forks and Spoons presents Ira Lightman and Angela Topping in the swarve Matt and Phred’s. Nice.
13th December, 7pm doors.
Click the link for more details.
Available now from Crater Press.
Dwelling by Richard Makin
“This is prose you must learn to experience, before you begin to interpret … The pages in their beautiful and delirious abstraction are ordered poetry: revised, corrected, disciplined, polished and then given their head.” – IAIN SINCLAIR
Head of a Man by John Gilmore
“I admire this spare, lean gem of a novel, so lyrical and evocative its brief prose fragments get into your head and stay there.” – GARY GEDDES
STONE SQUID experimental art space, 78 High Street, Old Town, Hastings TN34 3EL. Saturday 5 November 2011, 6:00pm, free admission – refreshments available.
More at the Reality Street site.
REALITY STREET will be at the annual Small Publishers Fair in November over the weekend of Friday 11th-Saturday 12th November. It takes place in the Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL.
Reality Street will be featuring the three new books in the Narrative Series that are being launched this autumn:
On the Saturday, at 4pm, Richard Makin will launch his 672pp “anti-novel” Dwelling, and John Gilmore will (belatedly) launch his book Head of a Man, which was published at the beginning of this year.
This year’s Reality Street sale includes an opportunity to pick up some choice items from the Reality Street backlist at bargain prices – subject to their being in stock, including:
More on the Reality Street site.
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The lesson of Furniture by Chad Redden, Leap Year by CL Bledsoe and Uncle Salvador’s Cigar by Gordon Mason now available for free on Red Ceilings Press.
3 new poems available as PDF.
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