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D.S MARRIOTT – DUPPIES
Published
October 2017
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Duppies is a book in
three parts which, in the author’s words, pays “deliberate
attention to the debased – and misunderstood – aspects of black and white
working class grime culture in London; an attempt at a kind of grime
prosody, whether imagined though Eski beats, multicultural London
English (MLE), cockney rhyming, or sino techno formal
experimentation.”
From
the Preface:
“Grime is late
shift, zero hour, it makes a beeline for bare life, but what it lays bare
leaves everyone cold. Grime is the thread that links afro-pessimism to
afro-futurism, but its role proceeds without ties or duplicity.
Grime is
post-work and post-brexit, its riddims respond to the necessity in which I
exist – see these wheels, they may be brand spanking new, but under the bonnet
there is fever and anguish. [...]
Grime is payback
for n-words and down-lows. It has dominion but no license for each dissolve is
charged with an asbo. It makes music from a manor that is not-me, but what it
gives has neither use-value nor beauty.
Grime is a
medium of the unknown, it refuses
everything but possibility: its
violence is one without immunity, but its real is dispossession, and is
inconsolable without knowing it.”
D.S.
Marriott was born in Nottingham in 1963 of Jamaican parentage and was educated
at the University of Sussex. He has taught there and now teaches at the
University of California, Santa Cruz. He has written many articles on poetics
and is the author of On Black Men, published in 2000 by the University
Presses of Edinburgh and Columbia, New York, and Haunted Life, published
in 2007 by the University Press of Rutgers, New Jersey. His previous
collections of poems were Incognegro (Salt Publishing, 2005), Hoodoo
Voodoo (Shearsman Books, 2008) and The Bloods (Shearsman, 2011).
85pp,
colour covers, perfect bound.
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J.H. PRYNNE – OF · THE · ABYSS
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A sequence of ten poems; in separated continuance, an outcry that ventriloquises and manifests languages of exclusion and yet with dogged persistence protests them.
“Oh strike the light, float the
boat, for
sake of common peril they are fallen away
as gathered up in sight of lamentable in-
difference and will go down against us”.
sake of common peril they are fallen away
as gathered up in sight of lamentable in-
difference and will go down against us”.
GIZEM OKULU– TOO SLICED FOR LANDING
Published January 2017
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Gizem Okulu’s first book is a sequence of 31 poems which, in broken and extended lines, explore the terrifying possibility of lack of speech, of blocked communication: a poetry written between languages and countries which both bridges and attests to the gap, the chasm that “opens / up / isolated / and / frightened”. These are poems about wandering, fleeing, fogs and rivers, conditions of exile and danger, marked at times by flashes of biting humour and throughout by intense commitment.
“I do not
belong here nor there I say but here I want to make you a house from the memories
of every woman you ever had before like the resistance of senses meeting for
one last time in the mirror we slept between the rivers and smokes in
earthquake lights all day and night in the cities against the sun.”
Gizem Okulu is a poet
who has published poems in Datableed,
Intercapillary Space, &c. and is studying for a Ph.D at Royal Holloway. She lives in London
38
pp, card covers (red), side stapled.
Errata. [11] For ‘Anotolia’
read ‘Anatolia ’.
[29]
For ‘women’ read ‘woman’.
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STUART CALTON – WIMPY AND ANDRé
Published January 2017
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A poem in ten sections, setting forth the interrelations between protagonists Wimpy, Climpy, Sandy and André, in a potentially infinite selection of mixed scenarios. Amongst other sounds, the poem includes the sounds of a car alarm, the thin barking of a radically rationalised trick poultice, a shout, a voice, silence, static, galloping and The Lark Ascending played triple-speed nine octaves up like rain on a steel bin-lid over a rave synth line. You need to read it.
“Just too big. Firstly way too big. And
then just right.”
Stuart Calton is the author of the following books: Blepharospasms (2016), Live
at Late Dilated Ileum (2015), The
Torn Instructions for No Trebuchet (2013), Three Reveries (2010), The
Corn Mother (2006), The Bench Graft
(2004), United Snap Up (2004), and Sheep Walk Cut (2003). As a musician, he is the
incomparable dictophonist TFH Drenching.
34 pp,
card covers (pink), side-stapled.
Listen! to Stuart reading a footnote to the book (“In the air above the abyss…” -- The First Manifesto of Inter-Subjective Bureaucratic Pointillism, an unintegrated footnote to Wimpy & André (Calton, S. (2016). Wimpy & André. Cambridge
Read! a review of Live at Late Dilated Ileum: HERE.
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CHRISTINA CHALMERS – WILLINGNESS
Published January 2017
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A collection of work written between 2013 and 2015, this is Christina Chalmers’ second book, and her first since Work Songs (2013). Divided into three sections, and containing poems such as ‘The International’, ‘The Arms Left Over’ and ‘Dragonfly Abattoir’.
“My German is
bad. My bed is a beautiful green lido. I drink
to municipal menthol. I grow more
sad.”
Christina Chalmers was
born in Edinburgh , studied in Cambridge ,
lived in London , and has recently relocated to New York
38pp, covers in gold paper, side stapled.
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NAOMI WEBER – VERY LONELY ANIMALS
Published November 2016
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Naomi Weber’s lyric sequence Very Lonely Animals sprawls across its pages in slabs of delicate observation, working through the condition of innerness and outerness, fragmentation and totality. The locations of these poem are wide open, seas and coasts, rooms in which people nestle and seek protection, but from which they pereptually seem to be on the verge of leaving: the line ripens in sounds unfolding within and across the break, lulling or obscuring.
This is poetry that sings it own song,
almost to itself, from just off-centre.
“This world we
love and keep our love in keeps
Tearing our
hands
The shreds
around nails dragging behind
Looking around
for gazes to meet
Digging bone to
neighbourly flesh
God help me I
am trying to be kind
But what other
worlds have you given us
To serve, says
a secret prayer”
Naomi Weber is a poet
who has published poems in Datableed,
No Money, &c. She has another new book forthcoming from Tim Thornton
and Verity Spott’s The Winter Olympics Press.
14pp, card covers (purple), side-stapled.
LINDA KEMP – LEASE PRISE REDUX
Published September 2016
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64 poems of fourteen (!) lines each. Such as: ‘Homelessness | spiders out | the majority of participants | O curb! O vultures! | freedom is mad inside’. Or: ‘the IMF walks the streets at night | if to suck on children’.
‘a cumulative impact which slowly seeps in, like a kaleidoscope of slow-moving debt, arrears and social smallness’. [Stuart Calton]
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BREXIT BORDERS KILL
Published July 2016
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This magazine has been put together in response to the recent referendum in the U.K. which came out in favour of the ‘Brexit’. It has been made quickly as a front against the fascist implications of ‘Leave’. Please print, photocopy and otherwise distribute widely. [D.G. + L.J. ~ July 2016]
Contents: Tom Allen, Jacob Bard-Rosenberg, Richard Barrett, Sarah Crewe, Joey Frances & Will Berry, David Grundy, Jeremy Hardingham, Danny Hayward, Tom Jenks, Lisa Jeschke, Justin Katko, Robert Kiely, Ed Luker, Max Maher, Sophie Mayer, Mendoza, Nat Raha, William Rowe, Connie Scozzaro, Robert Sheppard, Rachel Sills, Verity Spott, Street Kid, Andrew Taylor, Gareth Twose, Lawrence Uziell, Collages, Flyer
Link to PDF
Article (in German) at Süddeutsche Zeitung
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Article (in German) at Süddeutsche Zeitung
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PETER GIZZI – MARIGOLD & CABLE
Published July 2016
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Marigold and Cable: A Garland
Peter Gizzi is the author of books including In Defense of Nothing:
Selected Poems, 1987-2011 (Wesleyan University Press, 2014); The Outernationale
(Wesleyan University Press, 2007), Some Values of Landscape and Weather
(2003), Artificial Heart (1998), and Periplum (1992). He edited The
House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer (1998), and,
with Kevin Killian, co-edited My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected
Poetry of Jack Spicer (2008).
In
morning’s coloratura
a
magick eye plays tricks
under
the ongoing mossy
cloud-mass,
exhilarating
triangles
and timpani softly
in
silt air, in the blanketed
nowhere
of now
★
41pp, card covers, side stapled.
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KENNETH IRBY – ARMY POEMS
Published April 2016
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6 previously unpublished poems,
written during Irby’s time in the US
army in 1962: first in Sandia Base, Albuquerque ,
New Mexico , then Johnston Island
Kenneth Irby published over twenty
books of poetry during his lifetime, including The Intent On: Collected Poems in 2009. The poems presented here
have been prepared from Irby’s personal archives by that book’s co-editor, Kyle
Waugh, who also provides a preface.
Lyn Hejinian has written of Irby’s
poetry that it “radiates love”.
Irby died in 2015.
“The ‘Army Poems’ express Irby’s
outraged affection for his grossly mistreated, ‘absenced friends’, at least one
of whom was dishonorably discharged for ‘committing homosexual acts’ (as the
army then put it.) J.G., K.W., Schefelker – even the names are shredded. But
Irby carries a company whither he goes: “The people torn apart”, he writes, not
by, but “in the Army / are with me.”
Against the military’s puritanical fear that seeks not to cleanse the body, but
to erase it altogether, in Moloch’s “cloud of sexless hydrogen” (Ginsberg 131),
Irby’s ‘Army Poems’ celebrate the edaphic tenderness of the body’s “juice and
flesh”. The ecstasy in sharing it—“not a movement to leave the body, but a
movement of the whole body to join that which surrounds it” (29)—is an act of
chthonic resistance: “the blow job, the eat, the suck // are not dirty,” he
insists, “not even to mention, / but imperishable”. Irby is a poet of the
anarcho-pastoral. He walks on his own unplanted self.”
From the preface by Kyle Waugh.
17pp, card covers, side stapled.
OUT OF PRINT.
OUT OF PRINT.
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ED LUKER – THE SEA TOGETHER
Published April 2016
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16 poems. This is the first:
“So engaged,
I know who will read this I
know who it’s for for your
eyes locked, so watch with wonder
the wounded eat holding hands
dancing round the fire sing
songs round fire singing songs
round down amaze and work round
the fire and in each step
you are there so dear.”
18pp, card covers, side stapled.
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YULE
LOG
Published
December 2015.
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This is a magazine for
December 2015 printed in Cambridge
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DANNY HAYWARD - PRAGMATIC SANCTION
Published August 2015
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A Long Dramatic Monologue about recent developments in population control and work enforcement, done up as a chase sequence involving a mysterious booming sound, a side-scrolling pig’s head, and a lucky number seven, and featuring an extended cameo by the brain structure primarily responsible for coordinating stress response in humans and other animals.
“The conclusion is theoretically wrong. But before that, in the run-up to it, on the road to hell with the first door that exits from a pipe protruding upwards in the vicinity of the third door leading onwards into a highway with a person standing in it, call it me or you.”
36pp, card covers, side-stapled.
- Review by Yamuph Piklé here.
- 'Exit Strategies', review by Ed Luker here.
- 'The Edible Book in the Era of Riots', essay by James Day, here. Discusses Pragmatic Sanction alongside Commune Editions, Melanie Gilligan, Lise Skou, Nils Rømer and Sean Bonney.
- 'Unanswerable Questions', essay by Joe Luna, here. Discusses Pragmatic Sanction alongside Anne Boyer and Keston Sutherland.
- Recording of Keston Sutherland's talk on 'Blocks: Form Since the Crash' here. Contains substantial discussion of Pragmatic Sanction.
OUT OF PRINT.
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DAVID BRAZIL - PRAXIS, APOSTLES!
Published August 2015
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David Brazil is the author of The Ordinary and Holy Ghost (both published by Compline), among others. Most recently, Antisocial Patience came out from Roof Books in 2015. Praxis, Apostles! continues his engagement with theology and revolutionary politics; one might view it as a sequel to his metrical translation of St Paul’s letter to the Romans, the final section of The Ordinary. Sections in rhyming couplets sit alongside lines that spread across the page, almost to its edge, the seemingly archaic and the contemporary not separated but crowding in together, “from out the wreck / the wreck of my / particulars, my / placenames.” Far from being an arcane exercise, this is a poetry that is fully and fundamentally concerned with issues of common justice and social transformation. “and common things of commons we require / each one apportioned regions of the fire.”
34pp, card covers, side-stapled.
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ROSA VAN HENSBERGEN – LIGHTS OUT TO LOVE IN HD
ISBN 978-1-091998-95-7. Published
January 2015.
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My transmissions have
been hacked. Upfront as I am.
Lights out to Love in HD is a 120-page work in prose.
Split figures are figured by an unnamed narrator; watched and watching, on the
screen, in the room: there are eyes on
me, not only my own, but all eyes in the gloom; shadowy forces drag into
shadow and bright night-lit glare, at home, in the supermarket, on the computer
screen which holds out indifferently,
levers hierarchy of emotion.
It is in this way, not
sure what corpse or shade I sit in, that I walk the aisle…Searching back to
source, the narrator sets out to trace
the core anguish, scout the worm – we flash back, faces on the screen watch
and are watched, language sinuous insinuates in rhyme and polyglot ease an ease
of style belying surveilled unease. In
other words, address the problem areas around knowing / not knowing. Guzzle in
their origin. Meat and flesh, sex or death, taut or taught, in control or
out, imposed in infantile pose, react, controlled or abject, the skin stretched
as paper over the head, the grass false or real, virtual, organic, socially
made, evolve, dissolve, revolve, go glitch; in the stifling courtyard enclosed,
in the city a cell, with infinite free drinks, the packs of
produce, a body in a bed, the weight of
stone rocked to nuclear, collapsing into pollen, minute detail of the body
gesture danced or forced, reeling, unsure
in fact of where was back and where was home, and of where located their
relation to one another…To know your place, where that placement is
uncertain and hidden, rifled over and shot through in machine and in social
code: Held distended in distance that home dissociates, pixel display.
This is a book in which reformulative
technique, a melting and rewelding of the associative structures of language
lies at the heard and fold of my detective strategies.
My transmissions have
been HACKED.
120pp, card covers, side-stapled.
OUT OF PRINT.
OUT OF PRINT.
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TOM ALLEN – WATCH-FIRES
ISBN 978-1-091998-96-4. Published
January 2015.
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This is Tom Allen’s first book: a long poem with a Coda for
Diane Di Prima. Inside, stones, clocks, fires, rivers, screaming pigs, the
singing dead, ein guter mensch, Hell
approached across a series of lines and pages in various potential or actual
manifestations and angles. At times the poem’s lines seem to gesture towards
the quality of aphorism, but also to place that quality in a different and more
fraught, tautly-held suspense, chiselled and “slow. slow”, yet far from decorous: fully freighted and fully
forceful.
38pp, card covers, side-stapled
OUT OF PRINT.
OUT OF PRINT.
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SARA LARSEN – MERRY HELL
ISBN 978-1-091998-97-1. Published
December 2014.
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Sara Larsen is a poet based in Oakland , CA
Her previous publications include NOVUS, A,a,a,a,a, The
Hallucinated, After Sappho and All Revolutions Will Be Fabulous.
With David Brazil, she produced over sixty issues of the Bay
Area zine Try!
She is involved in the organizing committee for the Bay Area Public School , an autonomous free school at the Omni
Commons in Oakland .
MERRY HELLL is dedicated to Helen of Troy, to the women of
the Paris Commune, and “to my friends, now.” Commons and communes past and
present come up against patriarchal law, capitalism, military and police
violence, logics of cash and sacrifice, in lines that spread out, that elongate
in notated waves of sight and breath. The poem is urgent, witty and this only an
excerpt – the full book will appear from Atelos Press in 2015.
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A COMRADESHIP OF HEROES FROM
AROUND THE WORLD
Published December 2014.
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Photocopied / stapled zine to coincide with the RIVET XMAS
reading in London
given by Connie Scozzaro, Danny Hayward, Jack Frost and Christina Chalmers on Saturday 20th December 2014. Poetry by Scozzaro, Hayward, Frost, Chalmers, David Grundy, Toby Huttner, Lisa Jeschke, Ed Luker, Richard Owens, Nat Raha, Verity Spott, Sam Wilder. 40pp. Christmas tree made of skulls.
UNAVAILABLE.
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MATERIALS # 4 --- [ECONOMIC OPHELIA (126 pages)]
ISBN 9781091998049. Published December 2014.
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MATERIALS # 4 --- [ECONOMIC OPHELIA (126 pages)]
ISBN 9781091998049. Published December 2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Lucy Beynon – FEMINISM! :-)
- Elana Chavez – Two Poems
- Corina Copp – Praise Pseudograph V.2 (La Vue)
- Kathryn Griffiths – Oral Fixation
- Rob Halpern – Abundance Washed
- Jeremy Hardingham – Decapitate Breath
- Lisa Jeschke & Lucy Beynon – from The Dictionary of Theatre
- Camille Kame trans. Rosa Van Hensbergen – from Back-Flexure inter-HEMISPHERES
- Evan Kennedy – from The Sissies
- Kevin Killian – Open Letter to the Editors of Apex of the M, 1995
- Isolde Mayer – Five Poems
- Nina Power – Untitled
- Hannah Proctor – EXIT MEN
- Nat Raha – Two Poems
- Connie Scozzaro – O Père
- Verity Spott – Texts
- Will Stuart – Star Trek
- Marina Vishmidt – After ‘The Sadist Beats the Unquestionably Innocent’
- Cathy Wagner – from SECURITIES
- Alli Warren – Three Poems
- Naomi Weber - Purples
- Ronaldo V. Wilson – from Lucy 72
OUT OF PRINT. Reprinted in SUNDIAL COMPLEAT from Punch Press.
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LUKE ROBERTS - KEEP ALL YOUR FRIENDS
ISBN 978-1-091998-98-8. Published June 2014.
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Five poems, the companion to Left Helicon (Equipage, 2014).
The poems were written between September 2013 and April 2014. Their names are: Detached Preface, The Division of Adjustment, Testers, In Time of Plague; & Agitprop (An Ode). The fonts are: Avenir, Bell MT, and Corbel. The format is: A4, side-stapled, with graph-paper covers, 20 pages.
Geopolitics and cars meet Medea at the rally. New ways to write the pastoral and the political.
Planes, peasants, police, Pasolini. Lenin, tourists, kidnapping, the university.
The sea, intelligence agencies, bodies, odes, elegies, comedy, tragedy, totality.
Poetry!
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OUT OF PRINT.
IAN HEAMES - A.I. IN DAYLIGHT
ISBN 978-1-091998-99-5. Published March 2014.
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27 poems on the same pattern as ‘To’ (2013) and ‘Array One’ (2012).
OUT OF PRINT.
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MATERIALS # 3 --- [154 pages]
ISBN 9781091998032. Published February 2014.
[OUT OF PRINT: PDF forthcoming.]
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Table of Contents:
- Christmas 13 / Christmas Present / The Sheep [A.L. Snijders, tr. Lydia Davis]
- AND NOW THE oDic [Jonathan Redhorse]
- Overcooked Ecclesiasmic Surveymeat [Ken Fox]
- From Interpellation, Or The Tragedy of Beyoncé Knowles [Francis Crot]
- FIONN ag aislingeacht [Roíbéard Csengeri]
- Defense / Disgrace / Mosaic [Jessica Laser]
- Beauty and Health / caring curse / Drinks for Mere Rodent / Accident Remover / Another Little Poem [Verity Spott]
- PENNIES FROM HEAVEN [Richard Owens]
- incisions [William Rowe]
- Holiday in New York / internal memorandum / NOW RIGHT NOW / [untitled] / [untitled] / [untitled] / [untitled] / [untitled] [Michael Tencer]
- ekko [Tobias Huttner]
- Simultaneous Nativity Play [Hugo Ball, tr. Evelyn Heinz] / [untitled] [Will Stuart]
- MISUSE OF THE NETWORK / ORCA PLAINTIFFS [Ian Heames]
- Diversion to the knowledge of the damned / Preliminary Notes after Care Homes [Tom Allen]
- Poetry and parochialism [Orlando Reade]
- Texts [Martin Hackett]
- DETACHED PREFACE / FOR THE PARTY REVERSING [Luke Roberts]
- FRAUEN-WERK-STADT (from Our Party) [Caitlín Doherty]
- Thirsty [Frances Kruk]
- Hamlet (5) B Side / Hawk in the Rain (4) B Side /Porno Star t s (3) / Kerouac Baccarat: La Collection Bijoux (2) / The Deacon of Despair (1) [Frederick Farryl Goodwin]
- from Caissons [Ryan Dobran]
- Abendphantasie / Neue Welt / Des Morgens / Sick Overgiven [Justin Katko / Friedrich Hölderlin]
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MATERIALS # 2 --- [The Theatre Issue! (150 pages)]
ISBN 9781091998025. Published April 2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Mischa Twitchin – Anachronism…resisting an image of re-enactment
- David Grundy – Klaus Kinski Erlöser: A Role Play
- Irum Fazal – Text fragments from performances; Ground! (+edit); Ground ii; My Theatre
- Jeremy Hardingham - Not It
- Lisa Jeschke - On the History of the Fool and the Theatre of Jeremy Hardingham
- Will Stuart - In Despite
- David Grundy - How Long Is This?
- Lisa Jeschke / Lucy Beynon – john hurts [from idiot]; he’s dead / he’s dead / i’ve shot him in the head; Terrorism; Proclamation to the Nation: three songs for a minor, including a video
- David Grundy – Restraint, Constraint and Excess in the Work of Jeremy Hardingham, Lisa Jeschke & Lucy Beynon
- Ollie Evans – On the Benefits of Recreation; Stoma Tong: A Puncture Series
- Lucy Beynon – Concrete Feet
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ISBN 9781091998018. Published November 2012.
[OUT OF PRINT: PDF Available Here; CD Available Here.]
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Table of Contents:
- Lucy Beynon – He Does the Opposite of What He Says He Does
- Jeremy Hardingham - For Example (contains Artificial Light Encounter With Walls; Lines at American Military Cemetery, Madingly, Cambridge; Humour of Stealing; RACE SELECTORS; Little Violence: a children’s story)
- David Grundy - Happy Now; Stars in Yr Eyes
- Lisa Jeschke - ABC (contains Exposition Concerning Rhyme; Exposition Concerning Figuration; Exposition Concerning Aesthetics; Count; etc)
- Staff – Stuff
- David Stent - There Is: Nausea
- David Grundy / Lisa Jeschke / Laura Kilbride – The Soul
- Danny Hayward – Situations of Political Writing
- Ray Brassier / Jean-Luc Guionnet / Murayama Seijiro / Mattin – Clinical Violence (from ‘Idioms and Idiots’)
- George Osborne - Workers of the World, Unite!
- Lisa Jeschke / Lucy Beynon – Against Tino Sehgal: Diary of a Working Girl
- David Grundy – “A Form That’s Already Replaced You”: Against Kenny Goldsmith
- Patrick Farmer – From This Has Already Had a History (2b). Partial to Konrad Bayer
- David Grundy – Object, Destruction, Violence :: THE OBJECTING OBJECT