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SAL NUNKACHOV

3/31/2022

 
#salnunkachov
"Lovesong for a duplicating device" is a masterpiece. A compromise between editor, publisher, and author is the best way to describe the process. 
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If you aren't following the work of Sal, please do not delay. Follow Paperview Books and watch the video. 

THE BOOK OF PENTERACT

3/25/2022

 
#ashpoetry
Thanks to Anthony Etherin and Clara Daneri for their tireless efforts to put together such a colossal hardback anthology loaded with art created by my favorite artists. Inside, there are 6 pieces of ash poetry which I created to provide a glimpse into the era we find ourselves: war, disease, political corruption, scandals, resource scarcity and more. Each of my ash poetry visual poems are made from text I wrote. Each word of text torn and burnt on all four edges to resemble religious scrolls.
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Purchase your copy: LINK
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

CONSTELLATIONS

3/25/2022

 
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#astrapapachristodoulou 
Her debut collection is a stunner and available with Guillemot Press. Get your copy today.
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Purchase: LINK
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

PAPER VIEW BOOKS

3/15/2022

 
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#paperviewbooks
Featuring Booka by: 
Alex Kinova, André Lemos, Andrew Kuykendall, billy mavreas, Calin Kruse, Carlos Martins, carolina sepulveda, chris warren, christian bok, dave read, derek beaulieu, eric schmaltz, fatima queiroz, fernando aguiar, Francisca Sousa, franco cortese, fred free, gary barwin, grant evans, j g orudjev, j orange, james knight, jay snodgrass, joana moher, João Bacelar, João Diogo, joe devlin, justin kloster, kate siklosi, Kid Richards, laura kerr, leonor ribeiro, m p pratheesh, Maike Bispo, marco giovenale, Marco Gomes, mark wynne, marquesa do sabre, merlina acevedo, morphic rooms, Nico Vassilakis, Nicolas Le Forestier, Nuno Brito, paul prudence, reb livingston, rémi forte, rhys trimble, Richard Guaty, roberto almeida, rodrigo flores herrasti, Roeg Cohen, s cearley, sacha archer, Sal Nunkachov, toni hearn, and tvacollage.
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NICO VASSILAKIS

3/14/2022

 
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#thelastvispo
Edited by Nico Vassilakis and Craig Hill, this compilation is a must-have anthology. 
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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

WRITERS' KINGSTON

3/14/2022

 
#writerskingston
You'll recognize some of these fab spoken word poets/writers from the release of THE BOOK OF PENTERACT. 4 poets: Chris Kerr, Susie Campbell, and Teo Eve present pieces. Director Steven J. Fowler films the group at Kingston University's Town House Building: Courtyard Venue. 
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Be sure to follow: Writers' Kingston and YouTube channel. 

PENTERACT TEASER

3/12/2022

 
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#penteractpress
The Book of Penteract is nearly ready to meet the world. Check out the teaser.
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Link
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

3/11/2022

 
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#cecilialevy
Paper objects are my sweet spot. This artist is hitting all the right flavors.
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Check out website: LINK​
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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VOU: VISUAL POETRY

3/10/2022

 
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#book
Research immediately this book on visual poetry. 
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Preview: LINK Purchase: AMAZON

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

3/9/2022

 
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#grandpakelley
A loss for my family. This blog post represents loss and life. This image is of my grandfather swaddled. His Grandfather (right side with cigar) was part of Sherman's March to the Sea. And so I will take time to process this news of his passing. 
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Although war is in Europe and fighting exists between Republicans and Democrats as to how best handle one catastrophe after another since the pandemic... I take comfort in this image. Life will continue and good can conquer evil.

UKRAINE

3/8/2022

 
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#violins
It is too much sadness. And so we speak through music and art.
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LINK
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

TAKOMA PARK

3/7/2022

 
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#newexhibition
Takoma Park has once again provided space to display artworks by veterans at their community center. If you are in the area, be sure to check it out. On view until April 20: LINK
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Address: Takoma Park Community Center
7500 Maple Avenue

DULLES

3/6/2022

 
#exhibition
In honor of Women's History Month, Dulles International extended the Uniting US art exhibition space.
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More news to follow.

RAGE

3/5/2022

 
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#warpoetry
The origins of the visual poem RAGE are told through checking out the Oxford Brookes veterans' poetry workshop which I attended 2 years ago today. A true war poem doesn't apologize for telling the honesty of the carnage. If you would like information on the entire anthology and all the poetry inside, please click the links provided. 
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Link to Workshops: Veterans' Poetry Workshops
Link to podcast with Niall Munro: Interview with Maggs Vibo.
Link to BFBS radio story: How Poetry Is Helping Explore What It Is Really Like To Be A Veteran.
Link to anthology: 'My teeth don't chew on shrapnel': an anthology of poetry by military veterans.

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.

STREETCAKE MAGAZINE

3/4/2022

 
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​#ukraine
Supported this important event.  Won a prize
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War in Europe

So, final count, after fees, it's £420! We still think that's amazing and we'll be donating it all to The Refugee Council and Ukrainian Red Cross today! https://t.co/GSrSVp3WsD

— streetcake magazine (SUBS CLOSED) (@streetcakemag) March 1, 2022

NATIONAL BOOK DAY

3/3/2022

 
#mailinvirginia
Mail-it-flies! That is the theme of this post. Yes, you will pay a bit more in shipping, but what a treat to look forward to opening that box and supporting small press and publishers/artists/editors making beautiful artifacts.
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Support a local bookstore or library when you can, but otherwise...ship it. 

BREAKING U

3/2/2022

 

1/Breaking U
My vispo thread
Made from the fragments of our ongoing Tweets in 2022 pic.twitter.com/sBkCRSFOAc

— ᴹߥꞄ□ߥꞄǝꚌ ߥnn Ꮩﺂᕹ□□∣รﺂꚌꚌﺂรǝꞄﺂ (@maggsvibo) March 1, 2022

ANNA MALINA

3/1/2022

 
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#annamalina
Anna's art is mesmerizing, humorous, dark, and beautifully terrifying. My friend talked today of her art and influences. A visionary and a truly beautiful soul. You can hear her Twitter Talk in the link provided and find ways to support her family and many more. 
CONCLUSION:
Follow the artist's website: LINK

Ahhh, so breathtaking to hear from @annaxmalina and thinking of her family in □□ and thanking her for mentioning me. My heart □□. Your art speaks to the world and so many of us truly love you!! https://t.co/WKUkNqnNsQ

— ᴹߥꞄ□ߥꞄǝꚌ ߥnn Ꮩﺂᕹ□□∣รﺂꚌꚌﺂรǝꞄﺂ (@maggsvibo) March 1, 2022

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