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<\/p>\nI have always found this statement inspiring. Perhaps, I am attracted by technology; by the way machines inhabit and change the physical world. Like poems, machines can be intricate, crafted according to logical rules, yet retain a sense of magic. We know how they work, but can\u2019t quite believe they are possible.<\/p>\n
Today we launch our brand new catalogue into the world. It has been produced by another machine called a risograph printer. Each page has been run flat through the printer while a drum of ink rotates at high speed to create an image. My colleague Nick tells me that risograph is the missing link between old technology and new, between screen-printing and the digital world. I like this, too. The only way to move forward is to look back. Our voice is never our own.<\/p>\n
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In 2014 Penned in the Margins makes a big leap forward, with more (and more diverse) productions than ever before. Caroline Bergvall: Drift<\/a> is an extraordinary piece of performance that combines Old English and Norse sagas with contemporary reflections on migration. Siddhartha Bose\u2019s new show The Shroud<\/a> also combines ancient with modern to create a beautifully considered piece of theatre about loss. And in the summer we premiere a new event concept which draws on John Keats\u2019 notion of Negative Capability<\/a> to explore the mysterious world of artistic inspiration. Can a poem be inspired by a higher – or \u2018other\u2019 – force, or is it just the result of technique?<\/p>\n Our publishing programme kicks off in May with Mount London<\/em>, an anthology of essays that collectively attempts to ascend an imaginary mountain above the streets of the capital. And we release the first in a series of psychogeographical explorations of London\u2019s cemeteries by our in-house literary detective Chris McCabe: In the Catacombs<\/em>. I am also very excited to be publishing Midland<\/em> by the mercurial writer\/artist\/musician Honor Gavin: it\u2019s a beautifully unorthodox history of Birmingham that combines social observation with autobiography.<\/p>\n I’m looking forward to developing more projects that exist across our publishing and events programmes, and I’m delighted to announce that we will be working with the brilliant Anglo-Breton poet Claire Tr\u00e9vien to transform her celebrated book The Shipwrecked House<\/em> into a one-woman stage show<\/a>. This production will preview at Ledbury Poetry Festival in July (alongside Negative Capability<\/em>) and then tour from the Autumn.<\/p>\n Penned in the Margins started life as a series of poetry readings in a converted railway arch in South London. I had just graduated and was making my first steps in the London arts scene. That was, incredibly, in 2004. To celebrate the last ten years, we are publishing a Best Of anthology, Marginalia<\/em>, and holding a big party in September at Rich Mix, London to which all are invited.<\/p>\n As ever you can keep in touch with our events, productions and books here on our website or on Twitter<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tom Chivers, Director<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/classic\/bergvall_tour.jpg\")
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