Publishers

I’ll Drown My Book – Conceptual Writing by Women Poets

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About this project

I’ll Drown My Book will be the first collection of conceptual writing by women. 

Conceptual writing is emerging as a vital 21st century literary movement and Les Figues Press wants to represent the contributions of women in this defining moment. By supporting this project, you will ensure that women claim their literary space. Edited by Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place, the book includes work by 64 women from 10 countries. Contributors respond to the question: What is conceptual writing? I’ll Drown My Book offers feminist perspectives within this literary phenomenon.

CONTRIBUTORS: 

Kathy Acker, Oana Avasilichioaei & Erin Moure, 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, Suzanne Stein, and Rachel Zolf.

EARLY REVIEW: Read an early response to the book by Janice Lee in Dear Navigator: http://blogs.saic.edu/dearnavigator/spring2011/janice-lee-the-ghosts-of-ill-drown-my-book/ 

ABOUT THE EDITORS: 

Caroline Bergvall: http://www.carolinebergvall.com/
Laynie Browne: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laynie_Browne
Teresa Carmody: http://www.lesfigues.com/lfp/index.php?id=63
Vanessa Place: http://vanessaplace.artcodeinc.com/

FUNDING:

This funding will be used to offset actual printing costs. Most Les Figues titles are 96–160 pages; this book will be about 500 pages and three times more expensive to print. The book is already drawing international interest, as well as interest from outside the literary community, but we need to raise the funds to go to print!

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Crater Press wins Michael Marks Award

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The Crater Press has won the Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets award for a UK publisher of poetry in pamphlet form, on the basis of their publishing programme in 2010.

Robert Hampson, Judge, commented:

“We three judges were heartened and impressed by the vitality and strength of character of all the small presses we shortlisted, and we are delighted to be awarding this year’s Publishers’ Award to the Crater Press. Crater take the traditions of book art and fine printing, and add to them a strong editorial line to produce pamphlets that are both traditional and avant garde, as well as startlingly original.”

Congratulations to Crater Press supremeo Richard Parker.

Veer About

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Huge online issue of Veer about hosted at Intercapillary Space.

Contributors:
Edited by Adrian Clarke and William Rowe.

Veer About includes work from: Jennifer Pike Cobbing, Scott Thurston, Karen McCormack, David Caddy, Gavin Selerie, John Cayley, David Miller, Maggie O’Sullivan, Harry Gilonis, Chris Paul, Matthew Martin, James Harvey, Antony John, Doug Jones, Steve McCaffery, Nat Raha, Wayne Clements, Steve Willey, Mike Weller, Martin Gubbins, Sean Bonney, Pansy Maurer-Alvarez, Richard Owens, Gregorio Fontén, Steve Fowler, Johan de Wit, Frances Presley, Rod Mengham, Becky Cremin, Justin Katko, Elizabeth Jane Burnett, Stephen Mooney, Greg Thomas, Mendoza, Rob Holloway, John Seed, Jimmy Cummins, Allen Fisher, Niamh O’Mahony, Keith Jebb, Carol Watts, Rose van Hensbergen, Aodán McCardle, Peter Philpott, Tom White, Phillip Terry, Gilbert Adair, Ryan Ormonde, Edmund Hardy, Juha Virtanen

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Alex Davies – How Vivid the Claret

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Other Room founding member Alex Davies has a pamphlet out with Arthur Shilling press. Check it out:

£1.80 (UK & EU only), Arthur Shilling Press, 2011 (24 pages, A6, first 20 copies have unique cover images taken from “Stories for Boys”, the remaining 10 copies are reproduced prints)

To purchase from outside the UK/EU, please contact the editor Harry Godwin

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UPSCO publisher’s fair in Edinburgh, 23rd June 2011

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VENUE: The Old Ambulence Depot in Edinburgh, for our first book-fair on the 23rd of July 2011.

Tables are FREE

After party.

All that publishers need to pay for is transport, a bed, food.

We STILL NEED volunteers for the event

If you would like to volunteer, please contact alecnewman@hotmail.com. WE NEED YOUR HELP.

To book your FREE table, contact alecnewman@hotmail.com.

About The Old Ambulence Depot
The Old Ambulence Depot is just 10 minutes walk from Waverley Station, the main station. It is owned by the award winning New Haven advertising agency, and it is a regular venue for arts exhibitions and literary events. So, there will be a heavy footfall of likely punters.

Publicity
We have already made contacts with local literary groups, the local media, and at Edinburgh University. Knives Forks and Spoons are donating A3 & A4 posters (as many as are required), and as many flyers as they can print, which will be distributed by a growing team of Edinburgh volunteers around poetry venues and bars. Many thanks to those kind people.

USPCO,
122 Birley Street,
Newton-le-Willows,
Merseyside,
WA12 9UN.

Alec Newman

Reality Street Supporter Scheme 2011

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Via Ken Edwards:

The Reality Street Supporter Scheme 2011 has officially opened. Already some existing Supporters have re-subscribed – if you would like to join them, you will receive copies of the following five books in 2011:

  • James Davies: Plants
  • Leopold Haas: The Raft
  • Richard Makin: Dwelling
  • Carol Watts: Occasionals
  • Johan de Wit: Gero Nimo
(Subject to final confirmation and not necessarily in that order)

More than 80 people actively supported Reality Street in 2010. This support is vital for the continuation of the press, as it has been in the past few years. All Supporters, in addition to receiving copies of every book published during the year, are entitled to be listed as a Supporter in the back of the books and in relevant publicity, unless they have expressed a wish to remain anonymous.

The most convenient way to become a Reality Street Supporter is to visit http://www.realitystreet.co.uk/supporter-scheme.php
and click on the appropriate button: UK/Europe (£45) or Rest of the world (£60). You can then pay with your credit/debit card or through PayPal. If you prefer, you can send a sterling cheque payable to Reality Street to the address below. If you would rather pay with a non-sterling cheque or via bank transfer, please reply to this email.

PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING US AS A SUPPORTER – Reality Street gets NO grant aid and is dependent on its readers!

C’est mon dada

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Red Fox’s cool series hits its 50th publication with Klaus Groh “Frutas y Terra”

Visaul poetry / Collages on Spanish fruit and vegetable packaging.
A6 format – 48 pages – laser printing.
Thread and quarter cloth binding
November 2010
price: 15 euro / 20 US $ / 13 UK Sterling

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3 new chapbooks from NO press: Zits, Molotiu/Mallarme, Upton

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No press is proud to announce the release of 3 new handbound limited-edition chapbooks:

MASSACRE STREET
by Paul William Zits

MASSACRE STREET is Zits’ avant-garde interpretation of Alberta’s Frog Lake Massacre, created using only primary documents. Zits has created a text which simultaneously disturbs history and language. Produced in a limited edition of 70 handbound copies, $4.00 each

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THE AFTERNOON OF A FAUN
by Stephane Mallarme (translated, and with an afterword by, Andrei Molotiu)

THE AFTERNOON OF A FAUN is Andrei Molotiu’s translation of Mallarme’s classic text, allowing for swerves in meaning and expansion of possibilities within the form and narrative of the original. Produced in a limited edition of 50 handbound copies, $3.00 each

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NAMING For Betsey
by Lawrence Upon

NAMING For Betsey is Upton’s latest radical asemic visual poetry score; a radical act of reading and performance by a renowned visual poet. Produced in a limited edition of 40 handbound copies, $3.00 each.

to order copies, or for more details, please email derek@housepress.ca

The Text of Shelley’s Death

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Alan Halsey

reading

The Text of Shelley’s Death

An Optic Nerve CD, 70′ 37″

Recording by Colin Still

£12 post free in the UK. Payment by cheque or Paypal.

The Text of Shelley’s Death was first published by Five Seasons in 1995. The West House reprint, 2001, 84pp, is still available @ £8.95

The Text of Shelley’s Death ‘merely underlines one’s worst fears that the postmodern world view adds nothing to any subject and tends to confuse what we already know.’ Christopher Goulding, Keats-Shelley Review

”I sometimes carry it with me for protection against the spirits who want to steer me away toward death.’ Ronald Palmer, Goodreads

West House Books, 40 Crescent Road, Nether Edge, Sheffield S7 1HN

www.westhousebooks.co.uk

info@westhousebooks.co.uk

Paradigm of the Tinctures

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The new ebook from Argotist Ebooks is “Paradigm of the Tinctures” by Steve McCaffery and Alan Halsey. This revised and expanded edition of “Paradigm of the Tinctures” by Steve McCaffery and Alan Halsey revisits the classic humanist idea of the Sister Arts where poetry is understood to be a speaking picture and a picture a silent poem. The revisitation, however, is bluntly revisionary and the result is a fresh text-graphic dialogue. Available as a free ebook here.

Philip Davenport reviews * by Tom Jenks

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“There’s no sense of an overarching schema, no symphony, no grand homophonic ending. This is channel-hopping faster than eye or ear, driven by panic and punctuated with nervous jokes. In the tone of it, I’m reminded of nobody so much as neurotic old Brit comedians, Kenneth Williams or Hancock, the weirdness of their emotional hygiene, the horror at the approach of their ogres. Held in the throat of the poem is Ken Williams’s skreeking laugh, Hancock’s tussle with the melancholy of each bloodied day.”

Read it at Intercapillary Space, here.

* is published by if p then q.

Gangway Issue 40

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Via Ken Edwards:

The Expatriations Edition of Gangway (Issue 40) is live.

The issue, edited by Helen Lambert, includes writing from: José Kozer (translated by Mark Weiss), Vahni Capildeo, Ken Edwards, Laurie Duggan, Catherine Hales, Shelby Matthews, Kent MacCarter, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Marcus Slease, Jim Goar, Tony Baker, Matvei Yankelevich, David Miller, Jaki McCarrick, Louis Armand, Kristina, Müntzing.

Please go to the gangway site: http://www.gangway.net/magazine/
(click on “current issue”)