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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Pangs! is the debut poetry collection from Irish experimental writer and audio-visual artist Robert Herbert McClean.The collection consists of three interconnected sequences of 23 numbered prose-like poems, arranged as a non-linear manual of observations and ideas. They are fast-paced and explosive, honest and fearless, intimate and unashamed.McCleans writing establishes new possibilities for recording and reacting to the realities of modern life. Poems about love, sex, violence and religion exist in a landscape of CCTV, Skype, YouTube, torrents and hard drives, operating via the propulsion of a cohesive yet fragmentary narrative, set to a soundtrack of synth pop and thrash metal. The recent history of Northern Ireland is a continual presence, impossible to ignore.It is a poetry book for the digital age, reflecting our modern culture of obsessive notation and text-based communication; words and sentences crossed out yet visible remind us of the indelible digital traces we leave behind.Pangs! introduces a striking and distinctive new voice, which combines a poetic and lyrical sensibility with a radical and rebellious energy. It is emotionally kaleidoscopic, a panicked e-dreamscape, striving to dismiss the poetic in a satirical dissolution of the traditional lyric I and its associated conventions.As exciting, disturbing and joyful as anything Ive read for ages. In retrospect its as if I sensed this book being darkly prepared, the result of some kind of alchemical process, containing the necessary intensity of a cast charm or secret rite: the product is unlabelled and highly potent. These uniquely-voiced, dynamic and sometimes bewildering poems sift the strewn wreckage of a tradition and history that is both hunted for and resisted, in a strategy boldly at odds with the automatic obliqueness of much poetry with violence and confusion in its origins. Here, a mysteriously driven forensics operates in the wake of an unexplained blast, in a landscape where the dust never settles. Organised like an exploded view at the instant of detonation, McCleans Pangs! are scary and hilarious, conceptual, elusive, alarming, tragic and personal, full of brilliant syntactical feints and collapses, their diversions, manoeuvres and recoveries consistently and unnervingly inventive Youre a linguistic floozy. Youre like a car bomb. I mean everything. Pangs! is an urgent renovation of the Northern Irish poetic tradition from within. Sam RivierePassionate, perverse, unruly and political, Pangs! is a most unlikely melodrama; with the boldness of its imagination and the febrile desperation of its speaker, reading Robert Herbert McCleans book is like watching someone make a heartfelt apology while doing the international blow-job mime. Its rare you see poems treat themselves so irreverently, while clinging on so dearly for life. In Pangs! McClean has done that remarkable thing that poems can, which is to agitate and organise language in such a way that you cant tell the difference between an idea and a feeling, an image and a feeling, a feeling and a feeling Swans are the best friends of a shoe sellers ghost claims the speaker of 2.3; that you know what he means, and believe him, is testament to the compelling imagination and explorative openness of these wonderful, bright poems. Jack Underwood The debut poetry collection from Robert Herbert McClean. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. microaggressions is the new poetry collection from American writer and commercial creative Erik Stinson, and is his first book to be published in the UK.The collection is divided into six titled sections, composed of series of short, micro poems that offer observations on subjects ranging from politics to shopping, fashion to ancient history, computer games and celebrity culture to more personal experiences of work and play, love and desire.Stinsons work as a commercial creative is evident in the poems frequent references to consumer culture and the psychology of a capitalist economy. He condenses our collective, globalized urban experience into a series of precise, vividly imagined moments, snapshots appropriate to the onslaught of the information age. They are poems that are both reflective and indicative of the form of modern communication.Stinsons poetry combines minimalist, incidental observations of life in New York City reminiscent of Frank OHara with the concise, rhythmic imagism of William Carlos Williams, transplanted into 21st-century, digital reality. Punctuation is entirely absent, and capital letters only appear in brand names text that might be transposed to a billboard or social media post.The poems in microaggressions are consistently surprising and disquieting. They are set in a time after history, an era of refined destruction and emotional economic decline, in which society has become a death project, working against history and the self.The cover artwork, by American artist Zane Lewis, visualizes the pixelated experience captured in the poems microaggressions that compose a colourful and hallucinatory reality. The closer we look, the more obscured and abstract our vision becomes.microaggressions is Test Centres first publication by an American writer, indicative of the exciting exchange of ideas and styles emerging from the transatlantic poetry scene. The first UK-published poetry collection by American writer and creative director Erik Stinson. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. We are excited to announce the publication of lemon, egg, bread, the long-awaited debut from Laura Elliott.lemon, egg, bread is a striking first collection; a series of poems which read as an attempt to speed-write the still-life image. Drawn out of a process of meditation on and intervention within various still-life compositions, including works by Laura Letinsky, the collection explores practices of re-articulation by way of the feminist gaze and the gut.These are direct, imagistic poems formed purely from appetite; a compendium of metabolisms. Bound within sites of both domestic and intellectual labour, the poems narrate the idiosyncratic rituals surrounding food preparation, consumption, and observation.The vocabulary of the vanitas is here reconfigured via a poetics of devouring, which focuses on the liminal, the leftover, and the wasted. The subject speaks in and through the objects of digestion of the still life, mapping interrelations of celebration and shame, desire and rage, inscribing the most complex and fleeting of hungers. lemon, egg, bread is the striking debut collection from Laura Elliott; a series of imagistic poems which read as an attempt to speed-write the still life image. Drawn out of a process of meditation on and intervention within various still life compositions, including works by Laura Letinsky, the collection explores practices of re-articulation. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Poetry. A lost foolscap typescript until its recent unearthing, the long poem RED EYE was written in 1973 for publication by Sinclair's Albion Village Press the following year. Set aside to accommodate other books from the press, and pushed aside by darker forces, RED EYE is now revealed to be pivotal between Sinclair's early, locally based texts and the larger, more mythic structures of Lud Heat. Comprised of stylistically and thematically different sections, in its documentation of daily domestic life RED EYE functions in parallel to Sinclair's diary filming of late-1960s Hackney life, whilst its literal and poetical topographic journeys outward mirror the experimentation of the early film Maggot Street. The text of RED EYE receives its emotional equivalent in 16 full colour stills from these films, not to illustrate but to present a subconsciously connected film script, a series of alternate 'books'. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Serious Justice is the highly anticipated debut collection from writer, translator, editor and musician Jen Calleja.The collection captures the memories, fears and uncertainties of the millennial generation, attempting to define an unstable and disintegrating sense of belonging. The poems address issues of responsibility, injustice, sexism, revenge, misfortune, forgiveness and regret. They are the poems of an unfinished adult, nostalgic for a comparatively carefree recent past, and apprehensive at the prospect of an unknown future.Serious Justice is populated by characters who are paralysed but able to feel, powerless and imprisoned, but acutely alert, sensitive and aware. Violence and instability sit menacingly on the edges of the poems, threatening to erupt on to the page. The increasingly familiar experience of psychological instability and breakdown is a recurring theme, in a landscape of noiseless monochrome which demands creative methods of survival and entertainment.Callejas attentiveness to the subtleties and deceptions of language shows itself in a sharp and playful wit, which energises the poems and expands their sphere of reference. Her punk sensibility and sensitivity to the musical and rhythmic qualities of language grounds the poems in a recognisable and accessible reality, combining the simplicity of the language of song lyrics with a philosophical intensity and curiosity, constantly probing and questioning.The poems in Serious Justice continually return to the question of identity, and of how one defines and presents a coherent sense of self, skilfully reflected by ideas about translation which run through the collection. The overlapping circles on the books cover mirror Callejas conflicting but intertwined identities, blurring the boundaries of gender, class, race, language and personality.Many of the poems are autobiographical, exploring Callejas Maltese fathers immigrant background, her mothers lifelong mental illness and brothers diagnosis of Aspergers, and the impact of these on her own identity. The effect of these experiences is reflected in a concern for those who are sidelined, misrepresented and deemed a burden in society.Serious Justice is a striking and prescient collection from one of the most sharp and authentic voices to have emerged from the London poetry scene. The accessibility and directness of Callejas language, combined with her ability to perceive the complexity underlying the monotony of daily life, make her a poet to be listened to, communicating in a language that both frightens and seduces us. Serious Justice is the highly anticipated debut collection from writer, translator, editor and musician Jen Calleja. It is a striking and prescient collection from one of the most sharp and authentic voices to have emerged from the London poetry scene. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Poetry. {ENTHUSIASM} is the 7th poetry collection by poet, artist, curator and vanguardist SJ Fowler. It follows highly-acclaimed collections including The Rottweiler's guide to the Dog Owner and Enemies: the selected collaborations of SJ Fowler. The book's 81 poems are intended as individual pieces in their own right, but are interlinked by subjects including battle and violence, infants and infancy, religion, economy and population, the self, modernity, and the past. A substantial collection, {ENTHUSIASM} marks a decisive step in Fowler's tireless, expansive career. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. First Edition. One of 300 copies. 16mo. Glue bound. 64pp. Near Fine, the back cover very slightly marked.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A fine unblemished book. Limited edition of 500 copies.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. One of 400 copies. 8vo. Wrappers. 136pp. Experimental poetry anthology of work influenced by the digital age, with contributions by Sophie Collins, Guillermo Ruiz de Loizaga, Vicki Tingle, Timothy Thornton, Carina Finn, Crispin Best, Marianne Morris, Francesca Lisette, Harry Burke (plus an introduction), Gabby Bess, Bunny Rogers (plus the cover, with Jasper Spicero), Cassandra Gillig, Rachael Allen, Luna Miguel, Jayinee Basu, and Sam Riviere.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. 8vo. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (32pp.). Correspondence about Christian Marclay's 24-hour film of the same name, originally published by Petit's Museum of Loneliness in 2010 in an edition of around 20 copies, here in a bootleg of 99 copies (15 of which were signed by the authors), stamped by Test Centre on the front. Johnson A181[I.2].

Paperback. Condición: Very good. Paperback Duodecimo. wraps, 59 pp.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good Plus. 1st Edition. One of 250 copies. Folio. Stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (44pp. mostly printed on rectos only). A series of 20 texts - poems presented in the shape of prose, visually identical in format. Untitled, unnumbered, and unpaginated, they relate to each other in a process which runs forwards and backwards across the book, forming a circular sequence connected by fragments of repetition. Vertical lines are employed to mark divisions and connections between units, creating startling juxtapositions. The cover image is by Simon Hantaï. Slightly rubbed and creased from handling, which is inevitable given the large format.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Poetry. A lost foolscap typescript until its recent unearthing, the long poem RED EYE was written in 1973 for publication by Sinclair's Albion Village Press the following year. Set aside to accommodate other books from the press, and pushed aside by darker forces, RED EYE is now revealed to be pivotal between Sinclair's early, locally based texts and the larger, more mythic structures of Lud Heat. Comprised of stylistically and thematically different sections, in its documentation of daily domestic life RED EYE functions in parallel to Sinclair's diary filming of late-1960s Hackney life, whilst its literal and poetical topographic journeys outward mirror the experimentation of the early film Maggot Street. The text of RED EYE receives its emotional equivalent in 16 full colour stills from these films, not to illustrate but to present a subconsciously connected film script, a series of alternate 'books'. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. We are excited to announce the publication of lemon, egg, bread, the long-awaited debut from Laura Elliott.lemon, egg, bread is a striking first collection; a series of poems which read as an attempt to speed-write the still-life image. Drawn out of a process of meditation on and intervention within various still-life compositions, including works by Laura Letinsky, the collection explores practices of re-articulation by way of the feminist gaze and the gut.These are direct, imagistic poems formed purely from appetite; a compendium of metabolisms. Bound within sites of both domestic and intellectual labour, the poems narrate the idiosyncratic rituals surrounding food preparation, consumption, and observation.The vocabulary of the vanitas is here reconfigured via a poetics of devouring, which focuses on the liminal, the leftover, and the wasted. The subject speaks in and through the objects of digestion of the still life, mapping interrelations of celebration and shame, desire and rage, inscribing the most complex and fleeting of hungers. lemon, egg, bread is the striking debut collection from Laura Elliott; a series of imagistic poems which read as an attempt to speed-write the still life image. Drawn out of a process of meditation on and intervention within various still life compositions, including works by Laura Letinsky, the collection explores practices of re-articulation. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Pangs! is the debut poetry collection from Irish experimental writer and audio-visual artist Robert Herbert McClean.The collection consists of three interconnected sequences of 23 numbered prose-like poems, arranged as a non-linear manual of observations and ideas. They are fast-paced and explosive, honest and fearless, intimate and unashamed.McCleans writing establishes new possibilities for recording and reacting to the realities of modern life. Poems about love, sex, violence and religion exist in a landscape of CCTV, Skype, YouTube, torrents and hard drives, operating via the propulsion of a cohesive yet fragmentary narrative, set to a soundtrack of synth pop and thrash metal. The recent history of Northern Ireland is a continual presence, impossible to ignore.It is a poetry book for the digital age, reflecting our modern culture of obsessive notation and text-based communication; words and sentences crossed out yet visible remind us of the indelible digital traces we leave behind.Pangs! introduces a striking and distinctive new voice, which combines a poetic and lyrical sensibility with a radical and rebellious energy. It is emotionally kaleidoscopic, a panicked e-dreamscape, striving to dismiss the poetic in a satirical dissolution of the traditional lyric I and its associated conventions.As exciting, disturbing and joyful as anything Ive read for ages. In retrospect its as if I sensed this book being darkly prepared, the result of some kind of alchemical process, containing the necessary intensity of a cast charm or secret rite: the product is unlabelled and highly potent. These uniquely-voiced, dynamic and sometimes bewildering poems sift the strewn wreckage of a tradition and history that is both hunted for and resisted, in a strategy boldly at odds with the automatic obliqueness of much poetry with violence and confusion in its origins. Here, a mysteriously driven forensics operates in the wake of an unexplained blast, in a landscape where the dust never settles. Organised like an exploded view at the instant of detonation, McCleans Pangs! are scary and hilarious, conceptual, elusive, alarming, tragic and personal, full of brilliant syntactical feints and collapses, their diversions, manoeuvres and recoveries consistently and unnervingly inventive Youre a linguistic floozy. Youre like a car bomb. I mean everything. Pangs! is an urgent renovation of the Northern Irish poetic tradition from within. Sam RivierePassionate, perverse, unruly and political, Pangs! is a most unlikely melodrama; with the boldness of its imagination and the febrile desperation of its speaker, reading Robert Herbert McCleans book is like watching someone make a heartfelt apology while doing the international blow-job mime. Its rare you see poems treat themselves so irreverently, while clinging on so dearly for life. In Pangs! McClean has done that remarkable thing that poems can, which is to agitate and organise language in such a way that you cant tell the difference between an idea and a feeling, an image and a feeling, a feeling and a feeling Swans are the best friends of a shoe sellers ghost claims the speaker of 2.3; that you know what he means, and believe him, is testament to the compelling imagination and explorative openness of these wonderful, bright poems. Jack Underwood The debut poetry collection from Robert Herbert McClean. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. microaggressions is the new poetry collection from American writer and commercial creative Erik Stinson, and is his first book to be published in the UK.The collection is divided into six titled sections, composed of series of short, micro poems that offer observations on subjects ranging from politics to shopping, fashion to ancient history, computer games and celebrity culture to more personal experiences of work and play, love and desire.Stinsons work as a commercial creative is evident in the poems frequent references to consumer culture and the psychology of a capitalist economy. He condenses our collective, globalized urban experience into a series of precise, vividly imagined moments, snapshots appropriate to the onslaught of the information age. They are poems that are both reflective and indicative of the form of modern communication.Stinsons poetry combines minimalist, incidental observations of life in New York City reminiscent of Frank OHara with the concise, rhythmic imagism of William Carlos Williams, transplanted into 21st-century, digital reality. Punctuation is entirely absent, and capital letters only appear in brand names text that might be transposed to a billboard or social media post.The poems in microaggressions are consistently surprising and disquieting. They are set in a time after history, an era of refined destruction and emotional economic decline, in which society has become a death project, working against history and the self.The cover artwork, by American artist Zane Lewis, visualizes the pixelated experience captured in the poems microaggressions that compose a colourful and hallucinatory reality. The closer we look, the more obscured and abstract our vision becomes.microaggressions is Test Centres first publication by an American writer, indicative of the exciting exchange of ideas and styles emerging from the transatlantic poetry scene. The first UK-published poetry collection by American writer and creative director Erik Stinson. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

No Binding. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. One of 50 numbered copies. Six A4 poster poems loosely held in a blue folder with label affixed, produced for an event in advance of the anthology 'I Love Roses When They're Past Their Best'. Inevitable slight wear to the folder because oversized, its head edge with a moderate bend or bump, otherwise Fine.

First edition, first printing. Fine paperback original. Print run of 300 copies.

First edition, first printing. One of 350 copies. Fine oblong format paperback original.

First edition, first printing. One of a limited edition of 300 copies. Signed by the author. Fine paperback original with yellow edges and exposed spine.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Serious Justice is the highly anticipated debut collection from writer, translator, editor and musician Jen Calleja.The collection captures the memories, fears and uncertainties of the millennial generation, attempting to define an unstable and disintegrating sense of belonging. The poems address issues of responsibility, injustice, sexism, revenge, misfortune, forgiveness and regret. They are the poems of an unfinished adult, nostalgic for a comparatively carefree recent past, and apprehensive at the prospect of an unknown future.Serious Justice is populated by characters who are paralysed but able to feel, powerless and imprisoned, but acutely alert, sensitive and aware. Violence and instability sit menacingly on the edges of the poems, threatening to erupt on to the page. The increasingly familiar experience of psychological instability and breakdown is a recurring theme, in a landscape of noiseless monochrome which demands creative methods of survival and entertainment.Callejas attentiveness to the subtleties and deceptions of language shows itself in a sharp and playful wit, which energises the poems and expands their sphere of reference. Her punk sensibility and sensitivity to the musical and rhythmic qualities of language grounds the poems in a recognisable and accessible reality, combining the simplicity of the language of song lyrics with a philosophical intensity and curiosity, constantly probing and questioning.The poems in Serious Justice continually return to the question of identity, and of how one defines and presents a coherent sense of self, skilfully reflected by ideas about translation which run through the collection. The overlapping circles on the books cover mirror Callejas conflicting but intertwined identities, blurring the boundaries of gender, class, race, language and personality.Many of the poems are autobiographical, exploring Callejas Maltese fathers immigrant background, her mothers lifelong mental illness and brothers diagnosis of Aspergers, and the impact of these on her own identity. The effect of these experiences is reflected in a concern for those who are sidelined, misrepresented and deemed a burden in society.Serious Justice is a striking and prescient collection from one of the most sharp and authentic voices to have emerged from the London poetry scene. The accessibility and directness of Callejas language, combined with her ability to perceive the complexity underlying the monotony of daily life, make her a poet to be listened to, communicating in a language that both frightens and seduces us. Serious Justice is the highly anticipated debut collection from writer, translator, editor and musician Jen Calleja. It is a striking and prescient collection from one of the most sharp and authentic voices to have emerged from the London poetry scene. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. One of 274 copies (of 300). Narrow 4to. Stapled wrappers. 28pp. Illustrated. An unused, adapted section from 'American Smoke', recounting an East London walk in the company of Sebald's friend Stephen Watts. One of the staples rusty internally, otherwise Fine.

First edition, first printing. A stapled pamphlet featuring an essay by Iain Sinclair and poems by Rachael Allen, Sam Riviere, M C Hyland, Thurston Moore and S J Fowler. Signed by Sam Riviere. Fine.

First edition, first printing. Fine paperback original. Signed by the author. Numbered copy from a limited edition of 25 ( there were also 375 standard copies).

First edition, first printing. A stapled pamphlet featuring works by Iain Sinclair, Thurston Moore, Sam Riviere, Chris Petit, and Stewart Home. Signed by Sam Riviere. Fine.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Poetry. {ENTHUSIASM} is the 7th poetry collection by poet, artist, curator and vanguardist SJ Fowler. It follows highly-acclaimed collections including The Rottweiler's guide to the Dog Owner and Enemies: the selected collaborations of SJ Fowler. The book's 81 poems are intended as individual pieces in their own right, but are interlinked by subjects including battle and violence, infants and infancy, religion, economy and population, the self, modernity, and the past. A substantial collection, {ENTHUSIASM} marks a decisive step in Fowler's tireless, expansive career. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: Fine. First Edition. Wraps. Slip-Case. Large 8vo. pp 128, [26] plates. Paperback. Original publisher's ombre orange/grey covers, lettered white at the spine. 'Safe Mode' is an ambient novel by Sam Riviere, and his first book-length prose text. Designed by Traven T. Croves. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. Signed presentation from the author on both the front and rear half title pages, "The remote side at the stream - Sam Riviere." Limited edition of 26 copies, this being marked with the letter 'E'. ISBN: 0993569331 Fine in fine slip-case. Signedes.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. One of 26 copies with buckram covers, lettered, signed and containing additional holograph material (of 300). Narrow 4to. Stapled wrappers. 28pp. Illustrated. An unused, adapted section from 'American Smoke', recounting an East London walk in the company of Sebald's friend Stephen Watts. A little marked outwardly, the uppermost quarter with a mild bump or bend, visible mainly as a light crease to the lower wrapper and otherwise unobvious. Signed by Author(s).