Francesca Lisette/nick-e melville/Samantha Walton/Jeroen Nieuwland.
Out this month on Vier Books.
Francesca Lisette
Bad Press Ten Year Anniversary
Friday, 8 February 2013. 19:00 until 21:00.
X Marks the Bökship, 210 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 9NQ.
- Sophie Robinson
- Francesca Lisette
- Connie Scozzaro
Thompson’s Live
A series of podcasts from Chris Goode & Company, focusing on theatre and performance, poetry and music, arts and ideas with guests including Andrea Brady, John Hall, and Francesca Lisette.
Paper Nautilus issue 3 launch
- Caitlin Doherty
- Frances Kruk
- Francesca Lisette
- Marianne Morris
- Nat Raha
- Connie Scozzaro
Thursday 7th June from 7- 8.45 pm [doors open 6.30] in Clore 101, the Clore Management Building of Birkbeck College, Torrington Square WC1. More at the Paper Nautilus blog.
Francesca Lisette: Teens
The poems that appear in Francesca Lisette’s Teens were written between 2007 and 2010. Teens is deeply influenced by the intellectual climate and sea-charged air of Brighton, where Lisette lived whilst studying at the University of Sussex for five years. Approximating feminist phenomenology through a syntax of borrowed and misheard phrases; saturated with code-language, its philosophical outlook pre-savaged by the Frankfurt School & Situationism; this work traces a geography of body and spirit encountering battles both within & outside itself. At the centre of this collection is “Casebook”, straddling the boundaries between performance text, prose poem and lyric. Lisette’s first collection is reprinted in full alongside poems addressing the student protests of late 2010, and previously unpublished poems. Available now from Mountain Press.
New Infinite Editions
More free poetry postcards now available at Andrew Spragg’s Infinite Editions, including Francesca Lisette, William Fuller and Joe Kennedy.
New Grasp chapbook
Poems, written between October and December 2010…
by FRANCESCA LISETTE, JONNY LIRON, JOE LUNA, and TIMOTHY THORNTON
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.”
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