Yule Log

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YULE LOG

Published December 2015.

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This is a magazine for December 2015 printed in Cambridge, in an edition of 50 copies. Poems and prose by Sean Bonney, Christina Chalmers, Brendan Gillott, Peter Gizzi, Judith Goldman, Rosa Van Hensbergen, Lisa Jeschke, Rona Lorimer, Max Maher, Peter Manson, Linus Slug, Dell Olsen, Richard Owens, Ian Patterson, Luke Roberts, David Rushmer, Naomi Weber and John DeWitt. 76pp. Photocopied and stapled. Pictures of Yule Logs.

OUT OF PRINT. [But available online at Free Trials: click here.]

David Brazil - Praxis, Apostles!

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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.”

OUT OF PRINT.

Danny Hayward - Pragmatic Sanction

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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.

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Rosa Van Hensbergen - Lights Out to Love in HD

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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.

Tom Allen - Watch-Fires

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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  

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