Tottering word-sculptures

Posted February 3, 2010 by admin

Another great review! This time, Jon Stone tackles Weather A System by James Wilkes. Read the full review here at Dr Fulminare’s Questionable Arts. Here’s an excerpt to whet your appetite.

Wilkes keeps his ‘ethereal cannonade’ going right through to the end, gathering up the debris of weather reports and fashion shows alike and reassembling them into tottering word-sculptures, ransacking everything from books to pub chatter for pieces which he can fit together into some out-of-control jigsaw. [...] this is a book where the pleasure is in the technicolour range of the language and the urgent sense of not quite being there.

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Distinctive and smart

Posted February 1, 2010 by admin

Hesketh is determined to fuse word and thing into an integrated experience… Still in her twenties this is her first collection and is exactly what contemporary publishers appear to be looking for. A voice that is distinctive, smart and reaching for a mode of expression both disciplined and elliptical.

A fantastic review of Sarah Hesketh’s Napoleon’s Travelling Bookshelf by Graham High appears in the latest issue of quality literary journal Tears in the Fence.

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Aloud and Proud

Posted January 18, 2010 by admin

Good day. Ross Sutherland, author of the furiously ground-breaking, barricade-storming collection Things To Do Before You Leave Town, appears in today’s Independent (Life, p.7). It seems he has been teaching a journalist to perform poetry. All this in aid of promoting his new solo show The Three Stigmata of Pacman, currently on at The Old Red Lion Theatre.

To celebrate the continued newsworthiness of poetry, we are offering a special deal. Buy Ross’s Things To Do Before You Leave Town together with Tamsin Kendrick’s Charismatic Megafauna – two poets who cross from stage to page and back again – for just ten pounds. That’s a saving of £4 on the RRP.

Sutherland & Kendrick Special Deal
Things To Do Before You Leave Town
Charismatic Megafauna
£10 – offer ends 30th Jan 

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