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zimZalla object 004
zimZalla object 004, a postcard set by Stephen Emmerson, is now available. Go here to view a sample or buy. Also available on zimZalla:
Object 001: Opposable Dumbs – Tina Darragh
Object 002: Poetry – James Davies, Julius Kalamarz, Holly Pester
Object 003: Sound poetry – Matt Dalby
as the rushes were – Francesca Lisette
£8 (£1 P&P). 13pp.
This pamphlet collects poems – including Tar Orchid, published separately as a broadside last year – written between February 2008 and February 2009. Machine-printed but otherwise hand-made copies, with cover artwork by Paul Alexander Thornton, and designed using a new typeface by Daniel Rhatigan.
In the recent Openned Zine Issue 2, Luke Roberts said THIS about Lisette’s recent work: “… toying with obscurity, confident measure, I think actually being deliberately secretive as a form of intimacy, or a way of controlling intimacy. The highly ornate vocabulary of her poetry establishes a strange relationship with the listener: the way I follow Lisette’s work is like a grid, or aspects and planes of meaning and signifying which are constantly shifting. Maybe these grids and aspects and planes are attached to bodies, or at least a you and an I, even if those poles get repeatedly flipped and turned and examined.”
FUTURES by Ken Edwards reissued
FUTURES, Ken Edwards’ 1998 novel, has been reissued by Reality Street with a new cover, after briefly going out of print.
The narrative traces the paths taken on her bicycle by the protagonist, Eye, across and out of an unnamed city in the wake of an event she can’t remember. Her quest is to face her terror and retrieve the fragments of her life, which lie in the future that never quite arrives, until it does.
More here.
Tom Jenks A Priori
Tom Jenks’ first collection is now back in print with all new white font on the cover:
4 news KFS pamphlets
Out Now:
Anna McKerrow’s ‘Taropoetics’ £5.00, 59 pages.
S. Kelly’s ‘Locklines’ £5.00, 24 pages.
Joy as Tiresome Vandalism (AKA James Davies & Simon Taylor) ‘Absolute Elsewhere’ £5.00, 32 pages.
Ed Baker’s ‘De:sire Is’ £3.00, 12 pages.
Check them out at www.knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk
SPECIAL OFFER: 3 books for £10
10 books for £30<
New from West House Books
Co-published by BookThug & West House Books
Karen Mac Cormack:
TALE LIGHT: NEW & SELECTED POEMS 1984-2009
192pp.
isbn 978-1-904052-26-5
£14.95 postfree in UK
Review copies will be sent on request.
TALE LIGHT draws from previously uncollected poems, revisions of published earlier poetry from Nothing by Mouth, Straw Cupid, Quill Driver, Quirks & Quillets, Marine Snow, The Tongue Moves Talk, At Issue, Vanity Release, and a rich selection of new work. For the first time the strategies Mac Cormack develops for each separate project (her often witty and ludic explorations, wherein she confronts the habitual in language and representation) are brought together for the reader as a collective textual experience.
‘Mac Cormack’s concern with the contingent, fugitive aspects of sense and perception as revealed when confronted with their temporal character yields a pleasure not as mastery but of mystery and surprise. … The atomic components of Mac Cormack’s text function as “lucid apertures”. Openings “to supply instead of render” a focus on the multiple.’ Scott Pound, American Book Review
‘From the beginning this poet’s approaches to writing have been beguiling: seemingly aloof and simultaneously engaging, probing and juxtaposing lexes, iconoclastic in her approaches and very funny. … Few writers make such a wrestle with language and our own unconscious syntactic projections onto the printed page so rich and illuminating.’ David Annwn, The David Jones Journal
Other titles by Karen Mac Cormack available from West House
( * = not represented in Tale Light ) :
* Implexures (Complete Edition). Polybiographical prose-poem. Chax & West House 2008. 132pp. £11.95
Plural Modifiers. Gargoyle 2006. 4pp. £2.50
* From a Middle (with Steve McCaffery). Housepress 2nd edn 2003. 28pp. £6
Nothing by Mouth. BookThug reprint 2003. 40pp. £6.50
At Issue. Coach House 2001. 70pp. £8.50
* Fit to Print (with Alan Halsey). Coach House & West House 1998. 64pp. £8.50
The Tongue Moves Talk. Chax & West House 1997. 60pp. £7.50
(all prices including UK postage)
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West House Books, 40 Crescent Road, Nether Edge, Sheffield S7 1HN
Two new books from Knives Forks and Spoons Press
Mark Cobley and Antony Rowland.
Samples here.
The Openned Book Table
Openned is setting up a book table in conjunction with Café 1001 in London’s East End.
Openned will have a presence at Café 1001 on the first Saturday of every month. The first event is on Saturday 5th June and runs from 12 – 6 pm.
Attendance is free as long as you bring one book to donate to Café 1001’s Book Orphanage. The book orphanage is a large bookshelf in the main bar space where anyone can wander in and read a book, for free, and then put it back on the shelf for the next person to read.
Alongside the selling of books on the Openned Table (which is in fact two tables, and more if we need it) there will also be some very short three-minute Openned Readings throughout the day.
More here.
Tom Jenks * now published
Tom Jenks’ second collection is out now:
Tom Jenks’ second collection is an open system interaction with the world and all its contingencies. Using fragments from mass media, signage, management doublethink and myriad other sources, the work slips between inner and outer worlds as they suggest themselves, with the * symbol acting as a wildcard to select everything that is the case.
Cleaves 2
Now online. Globalising and gloacalizing:
very very very early notice
Knives Forks and Spoons – new website
Alec Newman’s estimable imprint leaves Facebook behind and launches its own domain. Take a look here.
Knives, Forks and Spoons book launch
ntst SAMPLER
if p then q‘s imminent next publication ntst by Geof Huth is at the printers. In the mean time here’s a sampler. I think you’d define it as a corker:
More Knives, Forks and Spoons
Alec Newman continues his winter offensive with two new titles: North by Matt Dalby and Birds by Neil Campbell. More here.
Scott Thurston – Of Being Circular
Out now for mail order from The Knives Forks and Spoons Press.
Leslie Scalapino – Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows
“Miners, polar bears, insurgents sweeping the desert in Toyota pickups, a detective on the trail of illegal fur traders, Venus Williams’ deconstructed forehand, wild horses, blooming chrysanthemums, tadpoles eating corpses in the Euphrates, and so much more – Leslie Scalapino’s FLOATS HORSE-FLOATS OR HORSE- FLOWS is a startlingly beautiful, politically engaged, poetic novel. Narrative moments arrive out of inchoate states – an alexia where unknown words create a future – and the reader is continually and unexpectedly moved by the buoyancy and breathtaking velocity of Leslie Scalapino’s language.”
More here.
Via Charles Bernstein.
Subscribe to Arthur Shilling
Harry Godwin’s estimable imprint is now offering an annual subscription for a highly economical £12. For this, you get at least 6 chapbooks, plus the option to buy more books the press publishes at a discount rate. As if this were not enough, you can even have your name listed on the site and a link to your own site or blog – a fine way to burnish your own poetic escutcheon. More details here.
The Arthur Shilling Skype Reading Series
begins on Monday 8th February at 8.15pm GMT with Stephen Emmerson reading for half an hour. If you would like to ‘attend’ the reading (online via skype), please get in touch with Harry Godwin via the Arthur Shilling site here.
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