Full Colour, Hardback, 210 x 148mm, 200pp
THE BOOK OF PENTERACT presents our biggest project to date - a 200 page, full-colour, hardback anthology featuring 45 of the most exciting poets currently working in the fields of constrained, formal, and visual poetry. This is a casebound edition, with a striking red ribbon bookmark and black and red head and tail-bands.
Featuring contributions from:
Merlina Acevedo, Sacha Archer, Nick Asbury, Gary Barwin, Derek Beaulieu, Gregory Betts, Richard Biddle, Christian Bök, Luke Bradford, Andrew Brenza, Susie Campbell, Marian Christie, Lisa Cooper, Franco Cortese, Clara Daneri, Laura Davis, Lucy Dawkins, Dave Drayton, Anthony Etherin, Teo Eve, SJ Fowler, Mary Frances, Helen Frank, Mark Goodwin, Paul Hawkins, Greg Hill, Tom Jenks, Robert Frede Kenter, Chris Kerr, Laura Kerr, Michelle Moloney King, Alex McKeown, Nick Montfort, Astra Papachristodoulou, Imogen Reid, Katrina Roberts, Petra Schulze-Wollgast, Kate Siklosi, Rachel Smith, Vilde B Torset, Philip Terry, Simon Tyrrell, María Celina Val, Margaret Viboolsittiseri, & Lori Wike."
​Quoted at Penteract Press Website, 2022

Astra Papachristodoulou’s debut poetry collection Constellations is a sequence of 88 visual poems with games based on the 88 recognized astronomical constellations. Using collaged and found texts the artist weaves phrases and fragments through the stars, creating new patterns and ambiguities while inviting the reader to join in.
Astra Papachristodoulou is a poet and artist who has performed and exhibited internationally, including in Virginia, Athens, Vienna, Slovenia and at Kew Gardens. Her pamphlets and art books include Inside Ocean Größt's Time Capsule (Penteract), Bunnies Behind Bars (KFS Press), Astropolis (Hesteglock Press) and another stellar Guillemot production, Stargazing. Astra is also the founder and curator of the publisher and exhibition platform Poem Atlas."
Quoted at Guillemot Website, 2022

by  andrew topel, cecil touchon, christian bök, crag hill, derek beaulieu, fernando aguiar, gary barwin, marco giovenale, and nico vassilakis
Pages336
FormatPaperback / Softback
ColorFull color.
Dimensions8.2" × 10.3"
ISBN-139781606996263

This book collects experimental “visual poetry.”With The Last Vispo Anthology, Fantagraphics spotlights the intersection of art and language in this innovative new collection — without peer in English — that gathers the work of visual poets from around the world into one stunning volume. The alphabet is turned on its head and inside-out and the results culminate in a compilation of daring and surprising verbo-visual gems.
The Last Vispo is composed of visual poetry (a portmanteau of the words “visual” and “poetry) from the years 1998 to 2008, during a burst of creative activity fueled by file sharing and e-mail, which made it possible for the vispo community to establish a more heightened and sophisticated dialogue with one another. The collection extends the dialectic between art and literature that began with ancient “shaped text,” medieval pattern poetry, and dada typography, pushing past the concrete poetics of the 1950s and the subsequent mail art movement of the 1980s to its current incarnation. Rather than settle into predictable, unchallenged patterns, this vibrant poetry seizes new tools to expand the body of work that inhabits the borderlands of visual art and poetic language. The Last Vispo features 148 contributors from 23 countries on five continents. It includes 12 essays that illuminate the abundant history and the state of vispo today. The anthology offers a broad amalgam of long-time practitioners and poets new to visual poetry over the last decade, underscoring the longevity and the continued vitality of the art form."
Quoted in Paper View Books Website

Pre-Order! All purchases will be sent on or before the official publication date, 26/03/2022***
Full Colour, Hardback, 210 x 148mm, 200pp
THE BOOK OF PENTERACT presents our biggest project to date - a 200 page, full-colour, hardback anthology featuring 45 of the most exciting poets currently working in the fields of constrained, formal, and visual poetry. This is a casebound edition, with a striking red ribbon bookmark and black and red head and tail-bands.
Featuring contributions from:
Merlina Acevedo, Sacha Archer, Nick Asbury, Gary Barwin, Derek Beaulieu, Gregory Betts, Richard Biddle, Christian Bök, Luke Bradford, Andrew Brenza, Susie Campbell, Marian Christie, Lisa Cooper, Franco Cortese, Clara Daneri, Laura Davis, Lucy Dawkins, Dave Drayton, Anthony Etherin, Teo Eve, SJ Fowler, Mary Frances, Helen Frank, Mark Goodwin, Paul Hawkins, Greg Hill, Tom Jenks, Robert Frede Kenter, Chris Kerr, Laura Kerr, Michelle Moloney King, Alex McKeown, Nick Montfort, Astra Papachristodoulou, Imogen Reid, Katrina Roberts, Petra Schulze-Wollgast, Kate Siklosi, Rachel Smith, Vilde B Torset, Philip Terry, Simon Tyrrell, María Celina Val, Margaret Viboolsittiseri, & Lori Wike."
​Quote from Penteract Press Website, 2022

Cecilia Levy creates sculptural objects in paper, using old book pages, wheat starch paste and papier mach

Cecilia Levy creates sculptural objects in paper, using old book pages, wheat starch paste and papier maché technique.
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Her work is exhibited internationally and is included in private and permanent collections, including the Swedish National museum.
In 2017, her public art commission In Fusion – Contemplation Pieces was installed in the main entrance of Stockholms New Karolinska University Hospital, NKS, twenty plinths holding over 25 unique paper sculptures.
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technique.
Her work is exhibited internationally and is included in private and permanent collections, including the Swedish National museum.
In 2017, her public art commission In Fusion – Contemplation Pieces was installed in the main entrance of Stockholms New Karolinska University Hospital, NKS, twenty plinths holding over 25 unique paper sculptures."
Quoted at artist's website
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Ukrainian violinist Illia Bondarenko filmed himself in a basement shelter in Kyiv. He's playing an old Ukrainian folk song called Verbovaya Doschechka (arranged by Illia Bondarenko). He was contacted by violinist Kerenza Peacock who reached out to 94 violinists in 29 countries to accompany him in harmony."
Posted in article by Walker, 2022

I built from the letter R the peak of a volcano and the letters spelling AGE to flesh out the crater. The pressure builds and the lava spews out using colored pencils in various shades of black, brown, red to carve into the paper the word rage in all caps and a spewing ash cloud made from torn paper burned around the edges.
As we travel into the depths a red font states: Rage | Vengeance be Mine| Only then | we face| fools | poison.
Towards the magma chamber of the volcano, the poem has more blue font than black or red.
In the Blue, I wrote the poem to be read from several directions (left to right or up then down) to show passion penetrating and bringing clarity to the impairment of vengeance. It reads: I pray, for longing, fill bellies with hope. I pray dearest God, Awe / Might and at the end of it all See. The poem acts as a fire deity which both destroys and creates life. A religious scroll describing a reckoning. A quiet answer to the reaping of endless wars which greed harvests into a type of plague. In this way, we are the Gods of Destruction."
My quote from an audio file.