Manson and Mendoza - Windsuckers and Onsetters

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MANSON & MENDOZA – WINDSUCKERS & ONSETTERS: SONNOTS for Griffiths 
Published August 2018
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WINDSUCKERS & ONSETTERS: SONNOTS for Griffiths is a collaborative project between Peter Manson & Mendoza in commemoration of Bill Griffiths (August 20, 1948 – September 13, 2007). The assemblage of ‘niners’ (nine sets of nine lines with nine syllables per line) uses, or responds to, text found in Fishing and Folk: Life and Dialect on the North Sea Coast (2008) & Pitmatic: Talk of the North East Coal Field (2007) compiled by Bill Griffiths.

Blue card covers, 48 pages, side-stapled.

Bill Griffiths was born in Middlesex and settled in Seaham, Co. Durham. Mendoza was born in Northumberland and settled in London. Peter Manson was born in Glasgow and settled in Glasgow.


You lose your light.    spend all of your lives.
“endless doubtlessness,   land-full  /   surprised-
ness”.     unintelligible  language.
            eye-acute.    “look at the sun rising...
unspeaking and becoming”      light-like
sun-froth   unGod.      sun-needle   gaze-blaze
                                    erase death,   and in-turn re-birth.     this
                                    land is gold.   this coal is gold.   this clan-
                   ship      of miners              is gold                   is gold       is

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Below is a recording of Manson & Mendoza reading from the book. 
Recording: Mendoza. Production: Manson. Glasgow, August 2018.

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David Grundy - Relief Efforts

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DAVID GRUNDY—RELIEF EFFORTS
Published May 2018 (Barque Press)
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Barque Press have ceased publication and Materials is now carrying the remaining copies of David Grundy’s Relief Efforts, published by Barque in 2018.
“My back collapsed
My voice went on.”
David Grundy co-edits Materials/Materialien and is the author of A Black Arts Poetry Machine: Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019), Never By Itself Alone: Queer Poetry in Boston and San Francisco, 1944–Present (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), A True Account (The 87 Press, 2022), and Present Continuous (Pamenar Press, 2022), and coeditor, with Lauri Scheyer, of Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton (Wesleyan University Press, 2023). 

A5, stapled, 40pp.

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Lisa Jeschke - The Anthology of Poems By Drunk Women

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LISA JESCHKE – THE ANTHOLOGY OF POEMS BY DRUNK WOMEN 
Published April 2018 (Fourth printing January 2025)
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With its characteristic combination of total rigour and complete obscenity, this Anthology of Poems by Drunk Women is deeply attentive to the history of language, the complicities and complexities of poetic figuration, the extreme moral impurity of a fierce and funny and vital ethical commitment. A smiley face sits next to a guillotine, a German word next to an English one, should I or should I not marry Donald Trump, where is Chelsea Manning, Caster Semenya is the greatest 800m runner of the current era, fuck the AfD. 

“Guillotine!”

Lisa Jeschke completed a Ph.D in England, and now lives in Munich. She is co-editor of Materials/Materialien, and the author of Dead Cheap (Face Press, 2014), and, with Lucy Beynon, David Cameron: A Theatre of Knife Songs (Shit Valley, 2015) and The Tragedy of Theresa May (Tipped Press, forthcoming). Poems and critical writing have appeared in Botch, Datableed, Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, Materials, No Prizes, Tripwire, &c. 

Read Danny Hayward's piece on the book, 'World History's Teenage Diaries', here. 
Read Sam Rowe's Chicago Review review of the Anthology, alongside Lisa Jeschke and Lucy Beynon's The Tragedy of Theresa May and David Cameron: A Theatre of Knife Songs, here. 

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Sarah Hayden - sitevisit

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SARAH HAYDEN – SITEVISIT 
 Published March 2018 
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Sitevisit: sprawl, poem, overgrowth, cartography, demand: ‘There will be cocktails for everyone or there will be no cocktails at all.’ (Langer, Thießen and Scott, artiCHOKE 10). 
<slit my tongue

let me love your loggia>
Sarah Hayden’s chapbooks to date are Turnpikes (Sad Press), System Without Issue (Oystercatcher) and Exteroceptive (Wild Honey). Her writing has appeared in Blackbox Manifold, Golden Handcuffs Review, Tripwire, datableed and elsewhere, with new lecture-poems on the way in para·text and Hix Eros. She is the author of Curious Disciplines: Mina Loy and Avant-Garde Artisthood (University of New Mexico Press) and co-author, with Paul Hegarty, of Peter Roehr—Field Pulsations (Snoeck).

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Sean Bonney - Ghosts

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SEAN BONNEY – GHOSTS
Published October 2017
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Poems written in Berlin between September 2015 and the Summer of 2017. This pamphlet contains selected work from the pamphlet Cancer: Poems after Katerina Gogou, previously published in a limited edition, and an ongoing sequence entitled Our Death, as well as other pieces from the period. These are poems haunted by catastrophe, light, fires, the sun, violence and love. As Bonney writes: “We were talking about prophecy, about defeat and war, about how nobody knows what those words really mean, and what they will come to mean”. Drawing on writers like Baudelaire, Artaud, Anita Berber and Hölderlin like “marks on a calendar”, “a kind of cacophony”, or “the beginnings of a map”, these poems are vital indices of where we are.

“These days everyone is writing their final book. Whatever. I’ve lost everything as well. My body is made up of three needles, several coins, a system of nitrates and something wankers would call ‘a philosophy’. I see in the dark and like to smash mirrors. For many other people things are far worse.”

Sean Bonney’s previous books include Letters Against the Firmament (2015), Happiness (2011), The Commons (2011), Document (2008), Baudelaire in English (2007) and Blade Pitch Control Unit (2005). He currently lives in Berlin, where he is conducting postdoctoral research at the Freie Universität.

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D.S. Marriott - Duppies

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D.S MARRIOTT – DUPPIES
Published October 2017 (Second printing January 2025)
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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). 

Listed in The Guardian’s  2018 Books of the Year by Sandeep Parmar.
Review by Dan Hancox at The Poetry Foundation.
Review in Poetry London’s Spring 2018 issue by Robert Kiely.
Review in Poetry London’s Spring 2020 issue by Kashif Sharma-Patel.
‘Revicule’ by Colin Lee Marshall.

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J.H. Prynne - Of · The · Abyss

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J.H. PRYNNE -- OF · THE · ABYSS 
Published April 2017 
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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”. 
Review by Ian Brinton here. 
Essay by Luke Roberts on J.H. Prynne's recent work, including Of · The · Abyss at Chicago Review.

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Gizem Okulu - Too Sliced for Landing

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GIZEM OKULU– TOO SLICED FOR LANDING 
Published January 2017 -- Second printing April 2018
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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 distance 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 Botch, Datableed, Intercapillary Space, &c. and is studying for a Ph.D at Royal Holloway. She lives in London.

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Stuart Calton - Wimpy and André

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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: Materials Press). Your foot.): HERE.

Read! a review of Live at Late Dilated Ileum: HERE.

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Christina Chalmers - Willingness

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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. Her poetry has been published widely in such on- and off-line venues as: Datableed, Materials, Sundial, and Rivet.

38pp, covers in gold paper, side stapled.

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Naomi Weber - Very Lonely Animals

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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.

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Linda Kemp - Lease Prise Redux

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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]

64pp, card covers, side stapled.  

Review by Callie Gardner here. 

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Brexit // Borders Kill

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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

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Article (in German) at Süddeutsche Zeitung
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