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MERRIE MONARCH FESTIVAL

4/18/2022

 
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It's not just because he is my cousin that I LOVE his art. Scott Hare is a master craftsman and anyone can see and feel the attention to detail he puts into each piece (including this gorgeous carved calabash on the poster). Stop by and see him this week. Be sure to tell him that his cousin Maggs sends Aloha from Virginia. 
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Merrie Monarch Festival

ASHES TO ASHES

4/17/2022

 
#paperview  
Out in the wild. Get you copy while it's HOT! HOT! HOT! by emailing info@paperviewbooks.pt and a representative will provide the costs of shipping anywhere in the world. 
CONCLUSION:
Get your copy today and let me know what you think. Or shoot a selfie with it.  

SABOTEUR AWARDS

4/14/2022

 
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#EatTheStorms
I was delighted to be the first guest to read poetry and kickoff 2022 in the Eat the Storms Poetry Podcast hosted by Damien Donnelly of Ireland. Episode 5 of Season 4: Link to WEBSITE and Link to PODCAST. 
CONCLUSION:
Vote for Round Two to decide winners in the Best Collaborative Work at this link: Saboteur Awards
Damien Donnelly returned to Ireland in 2019 after 23 years in Paris, London and Amsterdam, working in the fashion industry as a pattern maker for various brands including Calvin Klein, & Other Stories, Pepe Jeans, Reiss and G-Star. His writing focuses on identity, fragility and connection. His interests revolve around falling over and learning how to get back up while baking delicious cakes. His work had been published in numerous journals online and in print including Black Bough Poetry, Barren Magazine, Anti Hereon Chic, Icefloe Press and The Bangor Literary Journal. His debut poetry pamphlet Eat the Storms, which was featured on the Poetry Book Society Winter List 2020/21 and his Stickleback micro collection Considering Canvases with Boys were both published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press. Both were nominated for Pushcart Prizes. In the Jitterfritz of Neon was published, also by The Hedgehog Poetry Press, in 2022, a conversational poetry pamphlet he co-wrote with Eilín de Paor. His first full poetry collection Enough! documenting his love affair with Paris will be out later in 2022 followed by Back From Away in 2023, another full collection."
Quoted on Eat the Storms Website, 2022

PATRICK DEXTER

4/13/2022

 
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#patrickdexter
We watch him on Twitter and now his debut 'Solace' is available. 
CONCLUSION:
Hear Dexter's rendition of Gymnopedia No.1: YouTube

2022 ANNUAL

4/12/2022

 
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#TrickhousePress
Congrats to Dan Power EIC of Trickhouse Press and all of the contributors who now have work inside the National Poetry Library. 
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Support Indie Presses. Buy Trickhouse Press 2022 Annual or check it out from the library :)
THE LINEUP:

Amanda Earl - Kept Awake by Little Fires Dreaming
Astra Papachristodoulou - from Like Amber
Chris Kerr - Mildred
David Spittle - enfants en deuil
draftpost0.github.io - like something else, nerds
Imogen Reid - 5 poems
James Knight - from Bodies
Joseph Turrent - Cyclohexane Drift Example
JP Seabright - Moveable Type
Katy Wimhurst - The State We're In
Laura Kerr - 6 poems
Maggs Vibo - M.U.S.I.C.
Martin Wakefield - Lego Poems
Matthew Haigh - BORN
Paul Robinson - STOPLOSS
ReVerse Butcher - 8 poems
Robin Boothroyd - Unearthed
S Cearley - 9 poems
Silje Ree - Knitting Patterns
Sy Brand - On Having Needs
Vilde B. Torset - Like A Mindmap of a Thoughtcloud

Amanda Earl - "Creating Culture Among Women: Friendship and List Making for Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry, A Conversation with Imogen Reid"

Scott Lilley - "An interview with Trickhouse editor Dan Power"

SJ Fowler - "Sticker Poems: Unstuck"
List available at Trickhouse Press Website, 2022.

THE MOUTH OF A LION

4/11/2022

 
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Our poetry anthology 'The Mouth of a Lion: Apocalyptic Visual Poetry' is now at the National Poetry Library! Congrats to EIC James Knight and all the contributors. 
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​Check it out! LINK
Our anthology of apocalyptic visual poetry is out now! It’s available in two editions: full colour paperback and deluxe hardback.

The book features innovative, provocative work by many of 2021’s finest visual poets:
Adam Allbright
Sacha Archer
Richard Biddle 
ReVerse Butcher
Kenneth M. Cale
Richard A. Carter
Theodoros Chiotis
Franco Cortese
Anthony Etherin
Matthew Haigh
Paul Hawkins
Briony Hughes
Mark Laliberte
Michael Orr
Astra Papachristodoulou 
Michelle Penn
Dan Power
T.W. Selvey 
Alex Stevens
Samuel Strathman 
Nic Stringer
Lizzy Turner
Joseph Turrent
Mark Valentine
Margaret Viboolsittiseri
Martin Wakefield
Katy Wimhurst
Logan K. Young
editor - James Knight"
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​Lineup at Steel Incisors Website, 2022

ANGELA T. CARR

4/10/2022

 
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#poetrycontests
I subscribe to a very good newsletter which provides opportunities for poetry, contests, competitions. Be sure to follow Angela T. Carr on social media sites and signup for the newsletter. 
Note: (Illustration by Nicole Ray via Etsy).
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JESSIE MORDINE YOUNG

4/9/2022

 
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#textileart
Jessie Mordine Young has stunning collections available at various sites and is debuting The 100 Day Series on 1 May 2022.
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Follow on Instagram

DAVID O'NAN

4/8/2022

 
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#davidonan
I've known David L. O'Nan for a couple of years and in that time he's invited me to be a Wolf Pack Contributor for his site: Fevers of the Mind. In addition, David has edited several FOTM anthologies together with his spouse, HilLesha (available on Amazon). The O'Nan Family has an exceedingly generous spirit to the poets on Twitter (including to me) and gives them space often throughout the year for poetry, photography or art features. Be sure to support O'Nan and check out all the new artists in the wolf pack.
CONCLUSION:
Get a copy of O'Nan's latest poetry book: Before the Bridges Fell 

LAURIE ANDERSON

4/7/2022

 
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What a treat! We visited the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC to see the Laurie Anderson Exhibitions: The Weather.
CONCLUSION:
If you need a quick tutorial on Anderson's work: YouTube

PAPER VIEW BOOKS

4/6/2022

 
#salnunkachov
Sal tells me on Twitter that there will be a celebration in a couple of weeks with a big event planned. 
UPDATE: Be sure to read a blog by Derek Bealieu's Blog about the publication and launch of Catalogue Saisonee or watch YouTube LIVE recording of the launch! 

Sal's love of printing and publishing fuels him to stay awake for hours and hours on end. You see it in the slideshow. We share many photos, gifs, videos, and jokes. It is a fun time discussing ink, 3D printers, events, machines, cultural landmarks, parties, traveling, art, photography, and on and on. And we both agree that the place Sal works is a space driving Sal's energy and nonstop creative output. This location: Paper View Independent Publishing. Where they "use obsolete media, to make it less obsolete."

Please, visit the many social media sites dedicated to Sal's muse: Paper View Books in Portugal. It is a place of wonder. I've mentioned that I hope one day to watch a documentary describing the goings-on of this slice of perfection here on earth. In the meantime, if you should find yourself nearby...visit! 
​CONTACT: 
Avenida Vossa Senhora de Fátima,31.
​2410-140 Leiria.
Portugal

P. (+351) 913 475 041
E. info@paperviewbooks.pt
CONCLUSION:
Congrats and Bravo. 
Serigraphy
Screen printing has the advantage of explaining itself in its name, serial printing. 
That's right. Ideal for, for example, series. Kind, more than one. Wood, paper, metal, glass, ceramics, anything goes.

Flexography is the simplest process and is used daily on a massive scale. 
The common stamp is a photosensitive polymer that hardens under ultraviolet light and has the advantage of being portable because it only requires a little ink and the image support itself. While not the cheapest method, the massive use of the same image makes it perhaps the cheapest way to print. Ideal for logo."
Quoted at Paper View Website, 2022

PATAPHYSICS

4/5/2022

 
#pataphysics
Penteract Podcast's Anthony Etherin talks pataphysics and blending the arts and sciences with Andrew Hugill and Christian Bök.
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Listen to the podcast: Penteract Podcast
Of all the French cultural exports over the last 150 years or so, 'pataphysics—the science of imaginary solutions and the laws governing exceptions—has proven to be one of the most durable. Originating in the wild imagination of French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry and his schoolmates, resisting clear definition, purposefully useless, and almost impossible to understand, 'pataphysics nevertheless lies around the roots of Absurdism, Dada, futurism, surrealism, situationism, and other key cultural developments of the twentieth century. In this account of the evolution and influence of 'pataphysics, Andrew Hugill offers an informed exposition of a rich and difficult territory, staying aloft on a tightrope stretched between the twin dangers of oversimplifying a serious subject and taking a joke too seriously.
Drawing on more than twenty-five years' research, Hugill maps the 'pataphysical presence (partly conscious and acknowledged but largely unconscious and unacknowledged) in literature, theater, music, the visual arts, and the culture at large, and even detects 'pataphysical influence in the social sciences and the sciences. He offers many substantial excerpts (in English translation) from primary sources, intercalated with a thorough explication of key themes and events of 'pataphysical history. In a Jarryesque touch, he provides these in reverse chronological order, beginning with a survey of 'pataphysics in the digital age and working backward to Jarry and beyond. He looks specifically at the work of Jean Baudrillard, Georges Perec, Italo Calvino, J. G. Ballard, Asger Jorn, Gilles Deleuze, Roger Shattuck, Jacques Prévert, Antonin Artaud, René Clair, the Marx Brothers, Joan Miró, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, James Joyce, Flann O'Brien, Raymond Roussel, Jean-Pierre Brisset, and many others."
​Quoted in The MIT Press

APERTURE

4/4/2022

 
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Free download today by Derek Beaulieu. 
CONCLUSION:
Download a free pdf: LINK
Purchase a copy: Penteract Press 

LENS FLARE

4/3/2022

 
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#derekbeaulieu and #RhysFarrell
Download a free pdf of Lens Flare
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Or purchase a copy from: Guillemot Press

QUEEN MOB'S TEAHOUSE

4/2/2022

 
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#russellbennetts
I had one piece published in QMT and will miss the online publication. Be sure to follow Russell Bennetts and support his other publication: Berfrois. 
CONCLUSION:
​See Pink now archived. 

ASHES TO ASHES

4/1/2022

 
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#paperview #maggsvibo
WOW! This is my debut from the Pluriversalis Collection published by Paper View books, with layout by artist Sal Nunkachov. released April 2022.
CONCLUSION:
Buy it here: Paper View

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. 
CONCLUSION:
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.
CONCLUSION:
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.
CONCLUSION:
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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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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Debut Vispo News Coming Soon!

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. 
CONCLUSION:
Be sure to follow: Writers' Kingston and YouTube channel. 

PENTERACT TEASER

3/12/2022

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