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Bastards

Nate Lippens


Out 29 September 2026


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Nate Lippens, author of the acclaimed novels My Dead Book , a finalist for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, and Ripcord, a New Statesman Book of the Year, completes his Wisconsin trilogy with Bastards , a book of losses, memories, and survival. 


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A full-on breakdown, wouldn’t that be fabulously dramatic? Instead, I ended up in green gripper socks, sweatpants, and a T-shirt, a look like a California cult member or a suburban schlub (same thing) on a seventy-two-hour hold—a crack-up fortnight—until I started acting like myself. Well, not myself, because how would they know who that is? A facsimile of normal. I mimed coherence, the continuity of a person moving from room to room. I performed my sadness convincingly, pimped memories of Rudy, flensed my crazy down to thimbles of death, an understandable loss.

You win. I say it all the time to people. You win. You won. You’re the winner. Congratulations. I said it when a boyfriend told me he didn’t love me. I said it on the ward. I said it when I got evicted. You win. Good for you.


Recently sprung from a stint on a psychiatric ward, the narrator of Bastards works hard to perform at being a person while questioning the concept of identity and what it means to be an aging working-class gay man when the word queer has become so elastic and gentrified it’s used to conservative ends. Struggling to survive, pay rent, and navigate a hostile world, he takes solace in art and his friends and measures what makes a life. 


Borrowing from the tropes of fragmented lyric essays, New Narrative, autofiction, and transgressive literature, Lippens is a bricoleur who creates a confected new form in his short novels. Queer pessimism in the age of affirmation. A search for something honest. An old queen’s cackle.


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Praise for Nate Lippens:


“I can't say enough about how good Nate Lippens's books are.” Gary Indiana


“I’ve been reading Nate Lippens for years … I’m finally getting a grip on what kind of machine his writing is. I think it’s a poetic instrument and also some kind of natural phenomena.” Eileen Myles


“Nate Lippens is a true blue radical queer. Bastards is a spiralling trip through the less canonized parts of our history.” Nicole Eisenman


“Nate Lippens is a brilliant writer, and a much-needed voice among the new crop of queer novelists. His portrayals of working-class queers, ex-members of the queercore movement, recovering addicts, and artists, feels new, though somehow also a part of a nearly lost family of queer thinkers: the writers and artists his characters still cherish.” Chicago Review of Books


“His bracing novels represent an honest reckoning with the post-AIDS era and its effect on life and imagination.” The Nation


“What a gift to encounter such intelligent homosexuality!” Robert Glück







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NEW AND RECENT



 
Dark Rides
Derek McCormack

30th Anniversary Edition 
with a foreword by Lisa Robertson

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Dark Rides is like the best carnival dark ride you've ever been on: funny and frightening, short and shocking. Dark Rides is a collection of stories about gay teenagers growing up in a small city in Canada in the 1950s. There's a different kid in each of the stories: the kid that loves Hank Williams, the kid that works at a haunted hayride, the kid that thinks he's Caligula and so on. They don't meet, but they share similar attributes: they're all named Derek McCormack, and they all fall for the wrong people in the wrong place at the wrong time. 

Published for the first time in 1996, Dark Rides was Derek McCormack's first book. This thirtieth anniversary edition features new illustrations and a foreword by Lisa Robertson.

‘A fresh, thrilling, perfect book.’ — Dennis Cooper

‘Derek McCormack is a genius of prose that is driven and artificial. In Dark Rides, homo-hormones ask our teen hero Derek the questions and deliver the answer—SEX. Derek’s small-town hardscrabble world is suffused with sparkling off-hand clarity as he undergoes the tender and menacing rituals of the high school closet.’ — Robert Glück

‘Welcome to the perverse and innocent world of Derek McCormack. The mystery of objects, the lyricism of neglected lives, the menace and nostalgia of the past—these are all ingredients in this weird and parallel universe.’ — Edmund White

‘Way back when, when I first read Derek McCormack's books, I thought that I'd like to be his twin, to share his brain and soul matter—his writing was that important to me and it still is.’ — Miriam Toews

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Derek McCormack is a writer and artist who lives in Toronto. Among his previous books are the novels Castle Faggot and The Well-Dressed Wound and a collection of essays about fashion and death titled Judy Blame's Obituary. The Shithole Opry Collector's Guide, a monograph about the hillbilly jewellery he designs, is forthcoming from Cushion Works/DAP. Dark Rides was his first book.

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Practicing Dying

Charlotte Northall


A TLS Book of the Year


Practicing Dying is a literary anti-memoir documenting life in a Zen Buddhist monastery in rural France where the protagonist, a woman in her late twenties, attempts to overcome chronic drug addiction and mental illness. 


Broken and severely unwell, our protagonist arrives at the monastery from London: starving, drug-addicted and disillusioned, having exhausted every conventional treatment route available to her. The book examines how, habituated to a life of benefits assessments, petty-crime and sex work, she struggles to adjust to the rules, discipline and religious life of the monastery—at times to devastating and comedic effect. 


As the story unfolds, she reflects on her addictions and past experiences, raising critical questions about what it means to be "an addict" and why there may be vested corporate and societal interests in maintaining a narrow, individualistic understanding of addiction. 


Anarchic and provocative, tender and self-deprecating, Practicing Dying differs from other contemporary memoirs in the genre of addiction-recovery by simultaneously challenging the dominant narratives surrounding mental health while proposing an alternative approach to treating the “sickness of self” from which we all increasingly suffer. 


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‘Practicing Dying is brilliant, rewarding and difficult. Northall offers the most brazen and shocking account of addiction I’ve ever read. Committing herself to the practice of Mahayana Buddhism, she eventually finds a way out, but only on the most rambling, circuitious path. Her account of addiction and loss, displacement and grief is profound and it proves that nothing is ever one thing.’ — Chris Kraus


‘The untamed offspring of Pema Chödrön’s The Wisdom of No Escape and David Wojnarowicz’s Close to the Knives , this is an addiction memoir that coolly refuses conventional narratives of addiction, trauma and recovery; an unflinching, no-holds-barred, seriously intelligent investigation into existence and how to survive it. A gut-wrenching, sublimely rewarding ride.’ — Olivia Laing


‘Charlotte Northall’s Practicing Dying is extraordinary. It had me holding my breath. She writes in the same direct and uncompromising vein as Heather Lewis and Shulamith Firestone about the darkest corners of experience. But hers is ultimately a story of survival and even transcendence, one earned on every page. The existence of the book itself is hope.’ — Nate Lippens



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Charlotte Northall is a London-based writer.  Her debut, Practicing Dying, blends autobiography and cultural criticism to explore addiction, capitalism, and spiritual practice. She works with rough sleepers, supporting those living with addiction and mental illness.


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FICTION 
The Orchid Stories 
Kenward Elmslie

with an afterword by Robert Glück

A little-known classic of twentieth century queer literature and a masterpiece of eccentric detail, poet Kenward Elmslie’s only novel The Orchid Stories presents us with interwoven stories as delicate and exquisite as the flowers for which they are named, conveying a dreamlike, otherworldly beauty. 

“A masterpiece of astounding and steadfast invention.” — Robert Glück

“Kenward Elmslie's insouciance, inventiveness and fearlessness suffuse The Orchid Stories. No one writes like him, no one. His mind travels in language and through sentences that jolt a reader out of settled linguistic paths. His writing marks the road less taken, his stories excursions without plans or plots. Instead, "Nirvana juice [is] for sale," heavenly pleasures the goal.” — Lynne Tillman

“A sweetly bizarre fiction that might be a secret autobiography. You tumble ahead and keep reading, led on by the metrics, though it's mostly prose. You just keep reading. The book contains no "official" emotions—ones you're supposed to have—but they feel exactly right. This book, first published in 1973, is still way ahead of the times.” — Alice Notley

“Kenward Elmslie is one of the unforgettable writers of our time. It is as though Burroughs’ permanent apocalypse were being observed by someone else: not a closet Savonarola, but someone motivated by the humor, sensuality, and joie de vivre of an O’Hara. . . The world may be an industrial swamp, but Elmslie’s dazzling one-step ahead induction of it is a cause for rejoicing and even joy.” — John Ashbery 

Kenward Elmslie (1929–2022) was a radical poet, artist, performer and librettist. An important figure of the New York School of poets and artists, he was the author of numerous books of poetry in his lifetime, as well as plays, opera librettos, and his only novel, The Orchid Stories. The latter was first serialised by The Paris Review in the late 1960s and published together as a novel in 1973, remaining out of print for decades. Alongside his own work, he also edited Z Press and Z Magazine, promoting the work of fellow poets, including John Wieners,  Bernadette Mayer, John Ashbery and Anne Waldman. From 1963, he was the life partner of the poet and artist Joe Brainard, living and working closely alongside one another until the latter’s death from AIDS in 1994. 

Robert Glück is a poet, fiction writer, editor and potter. In the late 1970s, he and Bruce Boone founded New Narrative, a literary movement of self-reflexive storytelling that combines essay, lyric and autobiography in one work. Glück is the author of the story collections, Elements and Denny Smith; the novels, Jack the Modernist, Margery Kempe and About Ed; and a volume of collected essays Communal Nude. His books of poetry include La Fontaine with Bruce Boone, Reader, In Commemoration of the Visit with Kathleen Fraser, and I, Boombox. He lives in San Francisco.

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RIPCORD
Nate Lippens


The oldest story: an insider pretends to be an outsider and receives praise for his empathy and imagination and intelligence. Maybe some asshole even says bravery. An outsider pretends to be an insider, is exposed as a fraud, a liar, and burned to the ground.

In Ripcord, Lippens continues his meditations on escape and connection, class, sex and intimacy. Stuck in Milwaukee, the narrator cobbles together a living by bartending and catering weddings, enmeshed in a semi-affair with a younger married man. Cruising apps while tallying his youthful romantic failures, he fantasizes about disappearance but finds both solace and frustration in his friendships with Charlie, an aging punk who was prominent in the 1990s Chicago queercore scene, and Greer, a painter who never broke through but continues making work.

“Ripcord is an existential torch song; the always-lost beloved is the world itself that declines to love us back. Lippens is a poèt maudit of ex-cons, junkies, and fuckups—of sizzling class anger and bad choices. He’s beyond gritty, into snarling and flamboyant. Here is the fragmented self and the pain of presenting it as something recognizable, with everything at stake. What a gift to encounter such intelligent homosexuality! Lippens shares the savage and droll improbabilities of queer desire—along with music, books, performance, and art—with a few eloquent friends. If I tell you I’m grateful for his voice in my head, I reveal myself as a loser in the best possible way.” — Robert Glück

“I loved Nate Lippens’ debut, My Dead Book, and Ripcord is even better: a meditation on sex, time, death, from an ageing queer man in the Midwest. Lippens is the master of the one-liner, and these compressed, aphoristic vignettes pack a powerful punch.” — Olivia Laing

“Nate Lippens is one of my favourite living writers. His voice is so furious, tender, and hilarious.” — Kate Zambreno


Cover artwork: Peter Hujar, Stephen Varble, Soho, Franklin St (III), 1976, courtesy The Peter Hujar Archive / DACS London

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192pp
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MY DEAD BOOK
Nate Lippens

Shortlisted for the 2023 Republic of Consciousness Prize 

My Dead Book is a novel composed of nonlinear vignettes and fragments about a queer man approaching his fiftieth birthday who is haunted by insomnia and his past. In the dead of night, he remembers his friends who died in the late 1980s and 1990s, his years as a teenage throwaway and sex worker, and ruminates on working class survival, queer aging, AIDS, and whether he has outlived his place in the world.


“My Dead Book by Nate Lippens is the most electrifying thing I’ve read in a long time, a poetic, compressed novella about queer loss and addiction that reminded me of Gary Indiana and William Burroughs.” — Olivia Laing, author of The Lonely City

“What a blistering book—with My Dead Book, Nate Lippens has created something truly fucking great. It's as if the storied stars of Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side' overshot Manhattan and wound up in Wisconsin, broke and blue with cold and depressed beyond belief by the thought that this nowhere is now home. It's a bitter pill, but I love bitterness, and who doesn't love pills?”
— Derek McCormack, author of Castle Faggot

“There’s no doubt to this book. You’d think that was a flaw but it’s been burned away. My Dead Book is not short though it is brief. It’s loving, bittersweet, and actually courageous because it tells a story that is slightly unbearable because it’s all secret, awful hard bad secrets and funny as hell. Nate’s balancing act works because the heart of it (this novel) is true even though it’s often heartless. It’s simple. He knows what things are worth. When you need the sea or a bird they’re there like they never were before.”

— Eileen Myles, author of Chelsea Girls

“This book by Nate Lippens is really moving and beautifully written. Not one superfluous sentence. It’s razor tight. The phantom limbs of what has been excised remains. But still there is so much love and sadness and all the randomness of what makes a life, and who you meet along the way. My ghosts are summoned by his ghosts.” 

— Hedi El Kholti, co-editor of Semiotext(e)


Cover image by Jimmy DeSana, courtesy Jimmy DeSana Trust

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143pp
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About the author

Nate Lippens is a writer from Wisconsin. His fiction has appeared in the anthologies Little Birds (Filthy Loot, 2021), Responses to Derek Jarman’s Blue (Pilot Press, 2022), and Pathetic Literature, edited by Eileen Myles (Grove, 2022). My Dead Book is his first novel. 

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POETRY

 
Brooklyn ave. Hymnal
Andy Riley

Brooklyn ave. Hymnal, Andy Riley’s full-length debut, is a poem written over a year spent living in an attic in Seattle’s University District. Finding himself in socially and sexually freer environs, the poet makes his way across town, commuting to school, watching the seasons, getting sick, being burned by lovers, and always keeping an eye on the city he loves. 

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‘This billowing serial-poem softens your attention, so that when its subliminal and restrained music peaks its head up in overt rhyme, it takes your breath away. It is remarkable.’ — Robert Kiely

‘In Brooklyn ave. Hymnal Andy Riley gives us the daily explosions of being, cradled in language. This book is a welcoming of those daily light shows. Some excellent gutter-stars shit. I loved being in its company.’ — D Mortimer

‘It can be tricky getting the ‘long poem’ right, but Andy Riley nails it. Brooklyn ave. Hymnal meanders so brilliantly up those uncertain boulevards of the mind and the heart. There is such triumph to this poem, to its earnestness; to its horniness; to its loneliness; to its keen yet defensive intelligence that just breaks you open. People like to talk about the wandering lyric, and I think this is a fine example of that, but this is, if you’ll forgive the cliché, a lyric that is cruising; and after a bit you realise it knows you’re watching, enjoying its furtiveness, its uncertainty, its need to be felt, and it likes that; and so you do too.’ — Al Anderson

‘Brooklyn ave. Hymnal opens like a hand, and curves to scoop up the life that drifts by it. This book-length poem is a sculpture made of lyric. Warm, light, and moving, I could read it over and over. Every time it will be different.’ — Sholto Buck

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Andy Riley is a poet living in Seattle, Washington. He grew up on the front range in Colorado and in rural Nebraska. He currently attends Seattle University pursuing a degree in Asian Studies.


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Light Film
Sholto Buck

Light Film explores the cinema of heartache. Thorough in its quest for drama, this collection of poems threads a personal narrative through kaleidoscoping imagery, in turns erotic, violent, and contemplative. Performing a shifting subject position, the speaker of this book finds humour, shelter, and emotional truth in fantasy, even as reality collapses into his desires.

“This is a collection of curves and boots, horny and isolated, in rain and bittersweet love with loneliness and lust, articulated through a series of ekphrastic-ish lyrics enamored with the parts of bodies on film. Jarman, O'Hara, and Wieners exert a strong influence, filtered through smartphone snapshots of queer life and longing: witty, tender, and engaging.” — Joshua Jones

“"The landscape / walked / a red / spiral of green / through me" as the poems in this book have passed through me, leaving me dizzy. Light Film is a great collection of poems: moving, curious, thoughtful – it's a film festival of poems.” — Ben Estes

“You will see Sholto Buck's Light Film being held by a romantic taking the subway. . . What is this book but a screen for holding images of tenderness, signifying a safe harbor for the kiss you imagine?” — Eric Sneathen

“Light Film is a collection of poems that move in emotional gestures and capture moments of intimacy in an unflinching and truly moving way. There is an honesty, a rawness, an intimacy, a darkness, and also a sense of humour within the writing on show. There is something about his collection - perhaps the very clear references to pop culture and movies - that reminds me of the late, great, and very much missed Kevin Killian, but it's not just because of the references— there is something beautiful and human happening here.” — Thomas Moore

Sholto Buck is a poet and artist living in Melbourne, Australia. He has been commissioned to write poems for the National Gallery of Victoria, and for 'Derek Jarman: Delphinium Days', at Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, and UNSW Gallery, Sydney. His first book, In the printed version of heaven, was published by Rabbit in 2023.

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 The North Road Songbook
Verity Spott


The North Road Songbook collects together eight sequences of poems, most of which were composed between 2019 and 2024. The title sequence is a set of lyrics written around North Road in Brighton, originally a mediaeval field boundary, now a chaotic thoroughfare filled with ghosts, sirens and songs.

Verity Spott is a poet, teacher and care worker from Brighton, England, whose books include Hopelessness (the 87press), Poems of Sappho (in translation) and Prayers Manifestos Bravery (Pilot Press). Verity’s poetry has appeared in The New York Times and has been translated into French, German and Greek. 

'Verity Spott’s The North Road Songbook is a book of place, placedness and misplacing, alive with voices of noticing and desire and loss, dense with catastrophe and its strange music.' — David Hayden, author of Darker with the Lights On

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ISBN: 9781739364977

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Argento Series
Kevin Killian

Reprinted for the first time in over twenty years, Kevin Killian’s first book of poetry is an audacious, operatic dive into the darkest recesses of the AIDS crisis. 

In 1991, Killian reported he was “frozen, unable to think of a way to write about AIDS crisis”. A year later, his friend Kathy Acker suggested the “films of Dario Argento as a prism through which to take apart horror of living and dying in AIDS era”. The result is Argento Series, framing Killian’s real-life experience of losing his friends and lovers to the disease through the camera lens of Italian horror filmmaker, Dario Argento. Here, AIDS is cast as the horror film monster, wreaking cold, unfeeling chaos and destruction wherever it finds itself. 

Blending a chilling, impersonal observation of death with Killian's typical high camp, tenderness and O'Hara-like wit, the poems use unflinching honesty and gallows humour to devastating effect. In Argento Series, Killian finds expression for a crisis, and moment in history, that changed everything, forever.


Kevin Killian (1952-2019) was a San Francisco-based poet, novelist, playwright, and art writer. Recent books include Fascination: Memoirs and the poetry collections Tony Greene Era and Tweaky Village. He is the coauthor of Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance, the first biography of the important US poet. With Dodie Bellamy, he coedited Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative Writing, 1977–1997. He died in 2019. 


'Here is Kevin Killian, pounding with bloodied fists on Poetry’s door. My heart swells with pride as I claim his masterpiece for our beleaguered city. Argento Series is Kevin’s Lament for the Makers, a monument reaching half-way to the stars for our fallen stars and every big dream of the world lost to AIDS.’ 

— Robert Glück

‘Lush, tossed off and incisive, there's no other American poet who lived more vividly on the page of his time and its culture—center, edges all of it. Kevin's Argento Series is a treat and a complete fact. Grab this volume, fast.’

— Eileen Myles

‘High weirdness, thorny beauty, cruel loss – it's all here, in Kevin's voice, and always will be. We will never stop needing this book.’

— Anne Boyer

'What Jackson Pollock said of himself, I will say of Kevin Killian: he is nature. Argento Series takes its title and frame from the Italian horror film maker Dario Argento but the effect is 100% Killian. Which is nature itself. Argento Series was written out of the carnage of the AIDS crisis. The poems are haunting, somnambulant, aggressive, plaintive, uncompromising, sullen, hilarious, brilliant, and outraged, creating a dynamic theatre of true horror. Argento Series now takes its place alongside the other queer masterworks of San Francisco poetry, including: Robert Duncan’s The Opening of the Field, John Wiener’s The Hotel Wentley Poems, and Jack Spicer’s Language. It’s important we have this title available again for new readers.'

— Peter Gizzi


Foreword by Derek McCormack
Cover artwork by Hedi El Kholti

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104pp
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Solitary Pleasure: Selected Poems, Journals and Ephemera of John Wieners 
Edited by Richard Porter, introduction by Nat Raha

Solitary Pleasure is a new collection of poetry, journal entries, letters and ephemera by the American poet John Wieners.

‘John Wieners has been described as both ‘the greatest poet of emotion’ (by Robert Creeley) and ‘the poet laureate of gay liberation’ (within the Gay Liberation press). Solitary Pleasure delivers us this poet raw with mid-century queer feelings. Here, we encounter a writer preoccupied with the power and magic of poetics to profoundly render love, loss and survival in the face of destruction.’

— Nat Raha, from the introduction

'Any "selected poems" is going to reveal the tastes of its editor, especially when those poems are selected from among an extensive body of work like the one John Wieners left us. Richard Porter's taste is exquisite, and his selection covers great ground, from the torch song poems of Wieners' early career to the rich, tessellated works of his beautiful and anguished late-sixties period. If I wanted a friend to fall in love with John Wieners, I'd give them this book.'

— Michael Seth Stewart, editor of Stars Seen in Person: Selected Journals of John Wieners

'This book is a great love held on paper, groaning out of Black Mountain and Boston. You are hit accurately by the poet flying around you as a reincarnated bow and arrow cherub. John Wieners is a fever dream where the poems forever maintain their mystery, releasing a flood of spontaneity in the reader's imagination. Let's get in the magic with both feet; let's do it now!'

— CAConrad, author of While Standing in Line for Death 

'Solitary Pleasure is a selected collection of Wieners’ poems, appended with letters and journal entries. An introduction, written by contemporary poet Nat Raha, makes a powerful case for reading Wieners’ work as art born from “the heart of struggle”. The poems themselves are offhand and diaristic. Sometimes, they deploy childlike rhymes that purposely steer close to nonsense, successfully generating a sense of wonder (“If I had a canoe / I’d fill it with you / Then what would you do”). The Wieners of Solitary Pleasure is a poet eager to vocalise queer desire. “The beauty of men never disappears,” he writes, later portraying desire as something that must be “choked” out of him. Occupying nearly a third of Solitary Pleasure are his “Asylum Poems”, which Wieners wrote in 1969 – the summer of the Stonewall riots – while in a psychiatric institution. These poems spotlight the connection between art and affliction, but challenge us to consider creative expression as a very real mode of survival and salvation, and not merely, as current wellness discourses suggest, a potential curative or preventive to mental ill-health.'

— Ralf Webb for The Guardian

John Wieners (1934-2002) was a poet, a Black Mountain College alumnus and an antiwar, gay rights and mental health activist. 
Cover photograph: John Wieners by Leni Sinclair 

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15x21cm
136pp
Printed on 100% recycled paper 

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 A Book of Music (1958)
Jack Spicer

A new edition of the posthumously published collection 'A Book of Music' by the American poet Jack Spicer (1925-1965).

While little known outside a circle of friends and poets in his lifetime, Spicer is widely considered one of the major figures of twentieth century American poetry. 

After being removed from a teaching position at Berkeley in 1950 for refusing to pledge allegiance to the United States, he became a founder of the radical and counter-cultural San Francisco Renaissance movement of poets in an age when homosexuality was illegal. 

He believed that the poet was a “radio” able to collect transmissions from an “invisible world,” as opposed to the idea that poetry was driven by a poet’s voice and will. In this sense he believed that his poems were dictated from a spirit world and saw poetry as a form of magic, most potent when spoken aloud. 

He died at the age of 40 in the poverty ward of San Francisco General Hospital, from acute alcohol poisoning. One of his last coherent sentences was, “My vocabulary did this to me.”

This new edition of A Book of Music, published 65 years after its original was composed, is risograph printed on Munken Lynx paper and saddle-stitched by Earthbound Press. 

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28pp

ISBN 978-1-7393649-0-8

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Displays 
Katherine Franco 

Displays has theoretical commitments, even if only to a “birdlike, brained” logic. Katherine Franco’s debut collection attends to sibilants, the system of signs, and sainthood in a kind of half-joke. Displays features a subject who wants to be “good” and for desire to be delivered through a well-formed critique. She likes explication. Then, she doesn’t.
 
Deriving its terrain from the classroom and the open road, Displays demonstrates how poetics is a source of knowledge and flight. The collection is dogged for a thesis, but instead finds itself amidst practicums, biopolytechnicaltechniques, and acts of renunciation. “Likeness is like / flying,” Franco writes in one of the book's final poems. Flight need not mean an abandonment of politics, pain, or one’s daily life – the collection suggests – but instead the generation of a landscape where play and poetic experimentation reign. There, we can discover the restless epistemology distinct to Displays.

Katherine Franco is a writer and artist. Her work appears in Prelude, Jacket2, and Juked, among others. She is a PhD student in English at the University of California, Berkeley. 

‘There certainly is no synonym for the recurrent "striations" Franco has created in her Displays—digging deep into the surfaces she's built up, a surface rhythm appears in her work like bars of music. For reasons I can't quite explain, I hear a sacred exuberance reminiscent of Adélia Prado or even Theodore Roethke's charge: I'll make a broken music, or I'll die.’ — Aaron Fagan


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64pp
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 Pretty Soon
Aaron Fagan

‘Aaron Fagan's colloquial voice--by turns mordant, enlightening, despairing, but always witty--not only describes a deeply compelling, interior emotional atmosphere, but a world we've made together, and how best to live in it. An astonishing collection.’

— Hilton Als

‘Tight, heady, and beautiful: Aaron Fagan’s sonnets obey an invisible procedure that lends his lines a sculptural, haunted equilibrium. Reading these finely wrought poems, I felt like I was being massaged inside a hall of mirrors, and the masseurs, many-handed, were legendary poets of the past. Pretty Soon is wisdom literature, comfort food, night school, Socratic candy, and high-wire elegance.’
 
— Wayne Koestenbaum 

‘What most distinguishes Aaron Fagan's poetry is its range and capacity for surprise, as well as its velocity. From careening, free-form meditations, to homage, to Algren-esque realism, sometimes a blending of all of the above, it makes for invigorating reading. A highly individual American voice.’

— August Kleinzahler

‘The sonnets in Pretty Soon dance in beauty like the light: compression, abstraction, impossible ideas lucidly expressed, political and personal truths lucidly slipped out as if in somebody else’s dream, woven through the even-seeming but subliminally jagged surface of the words. Reflections reflect metamorphic awareness, words slide into different words, phrases arouse recollections of other voices. All gathered in, turned to ethical account. Measured and forceful, ‘casual but final’, these poems stand by their words, and in them.’

— Ian Patterson


Aaron Fagan was born in Rochester, New York, in 1973, and is the author of Garage (Salt, 2007), Echo Train (Salt, 2010), and A Better Place Is Hard to Find (The Song Cave, 2020).

Cover artwork: ‘Fieldnote 2’ (gouache and pencil on paper, 2021) by Richard Porter

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 Skin of Nocturnal Apple
Misha Honcharenko

‘Love, longing, desire, and death. Misha Honcharenko wraps these eternal subjects around a raw nerve, delivering poems so visceral, anguished, honest, and imaginatively rich, each work possesses its own atmosphere. Although these poems were written before the invasion of Ukraine, they rush into the blank spaces in our minds between front-line updates and casualty reports. Rarely is a poetry collection so hungry for life.’ 

— Christopher Bollen

‘The worlds that unfold in Misha Honcharenko's poems are at once tender and brutal, precise and capacious, exquisitely sensual even in the face of desolation. Such tonal shifts signal the book's pre-eminent quality, which is an insistence on freedom—freedom of thought, of image, of movement. This is a collection of uncommon urgency and beauty.’

— Jason McBride

‘There is an ecstasy in these poems, a turning toward the sublime even when they grow dark, a beautiful pulsing. Reading them, I felt like I was walking in a garden, the plants shining in the moonlight.’  

— Amina Cain

‘As the days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine continue, which at the time of this writing is ongoing, Misha Honcharenko has mindfully and meaningfully arranged a span of years preceding the war that are struck like tinder: elegiac odes to lusts of everyday beauty in its transience. I feel fortunate for the witness he has been.’ 

— Douglas A. Martin


Skin of Nocturnal Apple is the debut collection of Ukrainian artist and poet Misha Honcharenko. 

Written in the years prior to Russia's invasion in 2022, Skin of Nocturnal Apple offers a window into the life of a young queer man living and working in the future war-ravaged country. 

The collection is accompanied with an afterword by psychoanalyst and writer Nick Blackburn (The Reactor, Faber 2022)

Cover artwork by the author

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 Diametric Fist Tender
Joshua Jones

Diametric Fist Tender is a collection of linked but distinct lyric poems exploring themes such as ghosts, gender, desire, hope, despair, time, tenderness and riots.

'I feel like, more successfully than I could ever hope to achieve, Diametric Fist Tender expresses and configures the contradictions between an abstract hope which is somewhere else, somebody else, in the future, and the constraint of messy embodied life.' 

— Laurel Uziell

Joshua Jones studies and teaches literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. They currently live in Portland. 

Cover artwork by Johann Lester

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Prayers Manifestos Bravery
Verity Spott

First published in 2018, Prayers Manifestos Bravery is a collection of Verity Spott’s “Trans* Manifestos”. Written from 2011 and originally published on her blog, the book’s content ranges from concrete poetry to long-form dispatches, confessions and manifestos touching on questions of identity, gender, justice and society. 

“This is a collection of attempted manifestos whose composition began in 2011. It does not pretend to be completed and any life it has is in its capacity for change, movement and instability. These manifestos are described as such because at the time of their composition they felt like attempts of preservation; of life and of the capacity to struggle against life. They are all improvisations. They have not been heavily edited, and they are untidy. We're unsure what we are." — preface by the author

Verity Spott is a poet, teacher and care worker from Brighton, England. She is the author of the books Gideon, Click Away Close Door Say, We Will Bury You, The Mutiny Aboard the RV Felicity, Prayers Manifestos Bravery, Poems of Sappho (in translation), Hopelessness, Coronelles Set 1 and 70 Sonnets. Verity's poetry has appeared in The New York Times and has been translated into French, German and Greek. 

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NON-FICTION


Practicing Dying

Charlotte Northall


A TLS Book of the Year


Practicing Dying is a literary anti-memoir documenting life in a Zen Buddhist monastery in rural France where the protagonist, a woman in her late twenties, attempts to overcome chronic drug addiction and mental illness. 


Broken and severely unwell, our protagonist arrives at the monastery from London: starving, drug-addicted and disillusioned, having exhausted every conventional treatment route available to her. The book examines how, habituated to a life of benefits assessments, petty-crime and sex work, she struggles to adjust to the rules, discipline and religious life of the monastery—at times to devastating and comedic effect. 


As the story unfolds, she reflects on her addictions and past experiences, raising critical questions about what it means to be "an addict" and why there may be vested corporate and societal interests in maintaining a narrow, individualistic understanding of addiction. 


Anarchic and provocative, tender and self-deprecating, Practicing Dying differs from other contemporary memoirs in the genre of addiction-recovery by simultaneously challenging the dominant narratives surrounding mental health while proposing an alternative approach to treating the “sickness of self” from which we all increasingly suffer. 


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‘ Practicing Dying is brilliant, rewarding and difficult. Northall offers the most brazen and shocking account of addiction I’ve ever read. Committing herself to the practice of Mahayana Buddhism, she eventually finds a way out, but only on the most rambling, circuitious path. Her account of addiction and loss, displacement and grief is profound and it proves that nothing is ever one thing.’ — Chris Kraus


‘The untamed offspring of Pema Chödrön’s The Wisdom of No Escape and David Wojnarowicz’s Close to the Knives , this is an addiction memoir that coolly refuses conventional narratives of addiction, trauma and recovery; an unflinching, no-holds-barred, seriously intelligent investigation into existence and how to survive it. A gut-wrenching, sublimely rewarding ride.’ — Olivia Laing


‘Charlotte Northall’s Practicing Dying is extraordinary. It had me holding my breath. She writes in the same direct and uncompromising vein as Heather Lewis and Shulamith Firestone about the darkest corners of experience. But hers is ultimately a story of survival and even transcendence, one earned on every page. The existence of the book itself is hope.’ — Nate Lippens



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Charlotte Northall is a London-based writer.  Her debut, Practicing Dying, blends autobiography and cultural criticism to explore addiction, capitalism, and spiritual practice. She works with rough sleepers, supporting those living with addiction and mental illness.


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The Assassination of Pier Paolo Pasolini in the Garden of Earthly Delights 
Derek Jarman

Derek Jarman’s unrealised film treatment, The Assassination of Pier Paolo Pasolini in the Garden of Earthly Delights, takes as its subject matter the events leading up to and including the murder of Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini following the making of his final film Saló, or the 120 Days of Sodom in 1975. 

Written in 1984, the setting of Jarman's film is inspired by the renaissance painter Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych, The Garden of Earthly Delights (1490-1500), a painting that depicts both the joys and perils of temptation, and which Jarman encountered on a visit to the Museo de Prado in Madrid the year he began working on the project. 

For the first time, a facsimile of the treatment is presented alongside reproductions from the film's workbook, which show Jarman's calligraphic notes towards the film’s sequences, themes, cinematography, lighting, sound, costume, casting and props. 

2025 marks fifty years since Pasolini's murder and thirty-two since Jarman’s death due to AIDS. Against a backdrop of funding cuts to the arts and the arrival of the HIV/AIDS epidemic that vanished away so many important artists and visionaries, The Assassination of Pier Paolo Pasolini in the Garden of Earthly Delights is a powerful elegy to the decadence of queer cinema and the tragedy of its last auteur. 

Derek Jarman was one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century. His practice, as diverse as it was prolific, spanned painting, sculpture, film, writing, stage design, gardening and activism. He was an outspoken campaigner for LGBTQIA+ rights, and was one of the first public figures in the UK to raise awareness for those living with HIV/AIDS, announcing his own HIV diagnosis on the radio in 1986.

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Disquiet Drive 
Hesse K. 



One night a satellite falls out of the sky and splits a girl in half. Disquiet Drive is a book scraped together from the shorn parts of a person who may no longer exist. Beginning with an admission that language and embodiment seem indistinguishable, yet refusing to claim a singular voice, the texts in this collection lurch between the fiery crucible of a transition and the weird jaggedness of our own continuity; between inverted memoir and prose-poetry; the raw, irrepressible lyric and the essay as an exercise in the art of digging-one’s-heels-in. Disquiet Drive is about undoing the words we’re handed so that language can survive, and undoing the body so that it can find a way to live.

'Disquiet Drive is restlessly exquisite. Hesse K’s writing vibrates with the quiet solar intensity of a planetary body that can’t be looked at directly: things slip, slink, snick and lick into each other, limning a gorgeous periphery where genre, past and future selves, follies, fossils and hormones collide. I can’t remember when I last read something as exhilarating, beautiful and deeply attuned to the implications and contradictions involved in struggling towards a bearable world, and the ‘undomesticated sensibility’ it requires of us.' — Daisy Lafarge, author of Lovebug

'There’s no deciding whether this is a sexy book or a thinky book. A dirty one or elegant. That’s class and this is a mind newly released into a poetry of paradigm shifts. There’s no story unless you’re thinking a mini Dahlgren rolling over into poetry when it likes. It’s such a good read always different when you pick it up like your own writing. There’s an intimacy and a dailiness to their funky act of being prose. Did I take my time or did I devour it. I liked it.' — Eileen Myles, author of Chelsea Girls

'Buck wild and entirely unique, Disquiet Drive took me to the beautiful and chaotic edge of the universe and made me want to write (live) for 200 years.' — Eliot Duncan, author of Ponyboy

'I remember hearing someone say a book is not a mirror, it’s a door. But what if the door is mirrored and you smash it? It might be Disquiet Drive by Hesse K. In shape-shifting prose, the self fragments and reconstitutes and we move through both the very particular and ultimately shared (if we’re willing to admit it) weirdness of bodies and minds that never quite align. I’d say I tore through this book, but I actually backtracked and reread as I went because there are continuous echoes and reverberations I didn’t want to miss. It’s really astonishing.' — Nate Lippens, author of My Dead Book

Hesse K. is a writer. Her criticism and poetry has appeared in MAP magazine and Montez Radio, and in anthologies by Sticky Fingers Publishing, Toothgrinder, Worms and Pilot Press, among others. She lives in London.

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Ingress

Kate Morgan


Ingress is an unwieldy body of writing that attends to intimacies between selves and others, objects and sites, considering how a difference of position, pronoun and voice might render these in unique ways.  In doing so, Morgan's work speaks to a particular state of being in the world, of materiality, of loss, of gendered experience, of cultivation and of the act of writing itself. An experiment in form as argument, Ingress was written over the course of two years from a tenement flat with a garden in Glasgow.



‘I loved this strange, accomplished book and its account of porosity and seepage on many planes. It’s tender, sexy, sly and dextrous, moving relentlessly along deep channels, emerging unexpectedly into sweet air, alert to language at every step.’


— Olivia Laing


‘Kate Morgan’s Ingress is a startling, many-headed meditation on language, art, and the natural world, opening you up to sensations and collapsing interior and exterior. A garden becomes a text becomes a body. The personal and the analytic mingle and slyly astonish. Morgan is one of those magicians who suspends reality through precision and excavation, digging deeper into experience, and also one of those metaphysicians who finds meaning at-hand in the daily and then disperses it all to be gathered again. This result is potent, moving, and mysterious.’


— Nate Lippens


‘It doesn't matter what genre this book is (essay, personal diary, notebook), nor what its subject matter is (a garden, a sculpture, the plumbing system underlying a house, love), because in some mysterious way, it manages to transform the material part of the world into poetic intensity and affect whoever holds it in their hands, as if it were a flood, overwhelming and reassuring at the same time. In this sense, the omnipresent water in this truly lyrical exploration of reality seems to take over the words and transform this text into an organism with a life of its own.’


— Cecilia Pavòn


‘ Ingress is a text that enacts its own name, a shining thing seeping into the reader––which is the same  act as the drawing out of relation, the intimacy  of attention paid at the shifting edges of things. Morgan’s writing is softly piercing, unpeeling sameness to separate out the difference of different things, but where difference is always just the slight refraction of the other. Ingress is both the container and the fluid contained, the brim and its brimming–– the fact of a boundary makes possible its breach.’

 

— Evelyn Wh-ell



Kate Morgan is a writer and artist from London, living in Glasgow. Their writing has been published by Sticky Fingers, Nothing Personal, MAP, Worms, and in anthologies by Pilot Press.



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Holy Bodies

Clay AD


Holy Bodies is a collection of writing and drawings by the artist Clay AD which together work as a series of  small proposals that exalt the freedoms of body, mind and spirit through care, sex, jokes, destruction and transformation. 



'Clay AD knows at an ancient and prescient level that, to quote from their book, 'shit is all life', but also that life is the shit, and the sunset, and the endgame. One for our immuno-suppressed comrades, shit theorists, pink salt throwers, and their lovers and friends, that is, I hope, everyone.' 


— Isabel Waidner, author of Sterling Karat Gold


'Clay AD’s poetry is for arseholes… & kneecaps, for belly buttons and sweaty crotches, for perforated ear drums and rubbish immune systems. This book is a vessel with feelings for vessels with feelings, transcribed into a trans crip language that I have been waiting for.'


— D Mortimer, author of Last Night a Beef Jerk Saved My Life

 


Clay AD  is a somatic bodyworker, artist and writer living in Glasgow.


Cover artwork and original drawings by Clay AD


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Judy Blame's Obituary: Writings on Fashion and Death

Derek McCormack


Derek McCormack is the author of fashion-inflected novels that cast luminaries such as Elsa Schiaparelli and Balenciaga as characters. This collection brings together for the first time McCormack's fashion journalism. He writes about and interviews fashion figures that fascinate him, tracing the ways they inspire and inhabit his novels. The result is a sort of memoir in essays: as he writes, "My tribute to [Judy] Blame is about him and about me—there are lots of my own tales woven in with the topics I touch on. The writing here is a sort of autobiography, a life seen through a scrim, or a life as a scrim—my moire mémoire."


Judy Blame's Obituary contains twenty years' worth of reminiscences, reviews of fashion shows and books, interviews with writers about fashion, and interviews with fashion designers about writing. He talks to Nicolas Ghesquière about perfume, and to Edmund White about which perfume he wore as a young fag in New York City. He inspects the clothes that Kathy Acker left behind when she died, and he summons the spirit of Margiela in a literary seance. He traces the history of sequins, then recounts the cursed story of Vera West, the costume designer who dressed the Bride of Frankenstein. These pieces were all previously published, some in Artforum, some in The Believer, and some in underground publications like Werewolf Express—what binds them together is a sense that though fashion victimizes us, this victimization is sometimes a sort of salvation.



About the author


Derek McCormack is a Canadian writer. His most recent novels are The Well-Dressed Wound and Castle Faggot , both published by Semiotext(e). Of Castle Faggot , Dennis Cooper said: "It is really just one of the best books ever, and maybe the greatest novel ever written."


Praise for Judy Blame's Obituary :



‘Derek McCormack, Canada's most famous author as yet unsullied by Nobel Prize or television adaptation, hides in plain sight as a fashion journalist. Parallel to his writing incantatory, scatological fiction, he has reviewed collections and interviewed the great and good of “la mode”. His divagations are often darkly hilarious and always exquisitely tailored. The sublime and the ridiculous coexist in his prose, as they do in life. Fashion victims, ignore his insights at your peril.' — William E. Jones



'Derek McCormack is one of my first and most enduring literary heroes. He only writes about what he loves, and has the lover’s rare gift of giving every stray object a proper home. You couldn’t mistake his aesthetic for anyone else’s—even if you were standing as far away as the moon.' — Sheila Heti



'I am charmed, amused and somewhat obsessed by ‘Judy Blame's Obituary’. Derek McCormack observes fashion and art and all its quirks with a sense of factual fabularity and camp mundanity. Stories captured like falling stars and written down like fan facts.’ — Princess Julia



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Last Night A Beef Jerk Saved My Life

D Mortimer



'Mortimer is one of the most talented writers of our generation and their debut collection proves this. Part essay, part poem, part memoir and part SOS, Last Night a Beef Jerk Saved My Life navigates its thematic scope—ranging from transness, queerness and naming to loving and losing—with sensitivity, insight, humour and bravado. Best thing I read this year.' 


- Isabel Waidner



' Last Night a Beef Jerk Saved My Life is a wonderful and thoughtful reflection on love and beauty and bodies and music and memories, and on the constellations of small things that make up modern queer life.' 


- Huw Lemmey



D Mortimer is a writer from London focussed on trans crip narratives. Their work (essays, poetry, prose, creative-criticism) has appeared in Granta and been performed at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London (Queers Read This, The Kathy Acker Reading Group). Their short story ‘Supermarket Revelations’ was published in Liberating the Canon: An Anthology of Innovative Fiction (ed. Waidner, Dostoyevsky Wannabe: 2018) and a poem-essay, 'How To Draw Hands', was published by Warm Yourself by My Trash Fire in 2020. 


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All My Teachers Died of AIDS

Sam Moore


Moving through time and across oceans, Sam Moore takes us on a poetic journey of self-discovery through queer history, pop culture and (auto)biography in this deeply personal encounter with queer identity a generation after the AIDS crisis. 


Examining the violent political legacy of right-wing governments, the search for liberation through art and the endless quest for self-discovery, All My Teachers Died of Aids serves as both eulogy and rallying cry, asking us to mourn the dead while lighting a torch to help guide us through grief towards a brighter queer future. 


'Sam Moore addresses what it feels like growing up queer and British in the 1990s when most of your teachers are either dead, and-or American. An important and evocative personal essay on archival absences and erasures, and, in Moore's own words, refusing to die of ignorance even though that's what so many wanted.' - Isabel Waidner



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ANTHOLOGIES

 

A Garden Manifesto

Edited by Olivia Laing and Richard Porter 


What do gardens mean and how can they change the world? A Garden Manifesto gathers radical visions rooted in the earth from artists, writers, gardeners and activists, among them Lubaina Himid, Derek Jarman, Jamaica Kincaid, Ana Mendieta, Dan Pearson and Eileen Myles. It’s a seed box for an uncertain future, packed with anarchic dreams of Eden-making and humming with resistance to the colonial project of homogenisation and destruction.


Featuring William Blake, Joe Brainard, Jonny Bruce, John Clare, Gerry Dalton, Ellen Dillon, Baha Ebdeir, Alys Fowler, Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, Gaylene Gould, Green Guerillas, Joy Gregory, Fritz Haeg, Lubaina Himid, Philip Hoare, Rosie Hudson, Derek Jarman, Chantal Joffe, Laura Joy, Jamaica Kincaid, Elisabeth Kley, Olivia Laing, Jeremy Lee, Siobhan Liddell, Alison Lloyd, Hilary Lloyd, Jo McKerr, Lee Mary Manning, Ana Mendieta, Bernadette Mayer, Rosemary Mayer, Huw Morgan, Eileen Myles, Hussein Omar, Palestinian Heirloom Seed Library, Ian Patterson, Dan Pearson, Jean Perréal, Charlie Porter, Pat Porter, J. H. Prynne, Claire Ratinon, Jamie Reid, Lisa Robertson, Kuba Ryniewicz, Saadi, Sui Searle, Sei Shōnagon, Colin Stewart, Tabboo!, Edward Thomasson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Scott Treleaven, John Wieners, David Wojnarowicz, Matt Wolf and Sarah Wood


Cover artwork: David Wojnarowicz, What is this little guy's job in the world , 1990 © Estate of David Wojnarowicz


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Responses to  " Forbidden Colors" (1988) 

by Felix Gonzalez-Torres 


For the seventh volume in the series, responses were sought to the artwork "Forbidden Colors" (1988) by Felix Gonzalez-Torres  


Contributors


Ashleigh A. Allen, Dylan Angell, William Butler, jimmy cooper, Matthew Kinlin & Neil Davies, Ellen Dillon, Ben Estes, Katherine Franco, Richard James Hall, Philip Hoare, Chris Jones, Hesse K., Elektra KB, Robert Kiely, Cyrus Larcombe-Moore, Ruby Lawrence, Daniel W.K. Lee, Paul Lee, Nate Lippens, Len Lukowski, Christopher Madden, Lee Mary Manning, Georgia Mannion-Krase, Douglas A. Martin, So Mayer, Alistair McCartney, Mark Armijo McKnight, Davide Meneghello, Sam Moore, D Mortimer, Eileen Myles, Daniel Napsha, Cecila Pavón, Kathy Pendrill, Richard Porter, AM Ringwalt, Sophie Robinson, Jack Sagar, Prem Sahib, Kashif Sharma-Patel, Lucy Swan, Abdellah Taïa, Anne Tallentire, M. Ty, Eley Williams


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Responses to Untitled (eye with comet) 

(c.1985) by Paul Thek


For this volume, responses were sought to the painting Untitled (eye with comet) by Paul Thek. The work was found in his storage after his death from AIDS in 1988. 


Contributors


E.R. De Siqueira, Ben Estes, João Motta Guedes, Lucy Swan, Jon Rainford, Louis Shankar, Amy Evans Bauer, Hattie Morrison, Sammy Paloma, AN Grace, James Horton, Nick Wood, Sophie Paul, Jae Vail, Elizabeth Zvonar, Lars Meijer, Clay AD, Michel Kessler, Pablo Miguel Martínez, Emma Harris, Dylan McNulty-Holmes, Kitya Mark, Katherine Franco, Ainslie Templeton, Alistair McCartney, John Brooks, Jesse Howarth, jimmy cooper, Felix Pilgrim, Nicholas Chittenden Morgan, Murphy O’Neir, Rachel Cattle, Isabel Nolan, Susan Finlay, Ted Simonds, Brooke Palmieri, Kate Morgan, Ashleigh A. Allen, Diogo Gama, JP Seabright, Hugo Hagger, Amanda Kraley, Brendan Cook, Matt Bailey, Charlotte Flint, Rodney Schreiner, Lucy Price, Morgan Melhuish, Jordan Weitzman, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Alex Fiorentino, Harald Smart, Marguerite Carson, loll jung, Richard Porter, Nicholas Kalinoski, Hedi El Kholti, Edmund Francis English, Ted Bonin


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Responses to Pale Blue Dot (1990) by Voyager 1


Responses to Pale Blue Dot by Voyager 1 is the fifth anthology in a series from Pilot Press that seeks responses to works of art made during the AIDS crisis. In this fifth iteration, responses were sought to the 1990 photograph Pale Blue Dot by Voyager 1.

Themes range from grief to masturbation; alien abduction to David Wojnarwoicz;  whale song to combination therapy, and late night cruising to the Oracles of Perception.

Contributors

In order of appearance

John Wieners, Philip Hoare, Nate Lippens, Jon Rainford, 
Sig Olson, Nick Blackburn, Robert Hampson, Art Allen, Chris Jones, Benedict Welch, Paul Coombs, Todd Meyers, Matthew Kinlin, Zsuzsanna Ihar, Brenna O, Roelof Bakker, Donna Marcus, Tim Knights, Sam Buchan-Watts, Aodán McCardle, Donald Butler, Brooke Palmieri, Antony John, Obe Alkema, David Leal, Lucy Swan, Ella Duffy, Mary Manning, David Lawrie, Richard Porter, Troy Fielder, Anne Tallentire, Ruby Lawrence

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ISBN: 978-1-7397029-3-9

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Responses to Love's Work (1995)  by Gillian Rose


Responses to Love's Work by Gillian Rose is the fourth publication in a series of anthologies that seek responses to works of art made during the AIDS crisis.
 
In this fourth iteration, responses were sought to the 1995 philosophical memoir Love's Work by Gillian Rose.

Contributors

In order of appearance

Cookie Mueller, Ian Patterson, Dodie Bellamy, Katherine Franco, James McDermott, Lotte Crawford, Moss Pepe, James Main, Nick Blackburn, Thea Petrou, Josiah Moktar, Roelof Bakker, Christopher Madden, Kashif Sharma-Patel, Madeleine Pulman-Jones, Lucy Swan, Lou Collins, Ted Simonds, Molly Gough, Edward Thomasson, Richard Porter, Alexandra Symons Sutcliffe, Cecilia Pavón, Kate Morgan, Olivia Laing, Ashleigh A. Allen, Reverend Joyce McDonald

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100pp
15 x 19 cm
ISBN 978-1-7397029-5-3

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Responses to Derek Jarman's Blue (1993)

Responses to Derek Jarman's Blue is the third publication in a series of anthologies from Pilot Press seeking contemporary responses to works of art made during the AIDS crisis.
 
In this third iteration, responses were sought to the 1993 film Blue by the multidisciplinary artist Derek Jarman.  

Contributors

In order of appearance 

Roelof Bakker, Jared Davis, Becca Albee, Linda Kemp, Ashleigh A. Allen, David Nash, Sam Moore, Anton Stuebner, Gonçalo Lamas, Olivia Laing, Nate Lippens, Jason Lipeles, JP Seabright, Andrew Cummings, Sig Olson, Maria Sledmere, Cleo Henry, Jessie McClaughlin, Lars Meijer, Scott Treleaven, Declan Wiffen, Caitlin Merrett King, Harry Agius, António Manso Preto, Adriana Lazarova, Brooke Palmieri, D Mortimer, Mary Manning, Aaron James Murphy

Softcover
15 x 19 cm
128 pp
Printed on 100% recycled paper 

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Now I Know, Daylight: Responses to Untitled No 1 (1981) by Agnes Martin 

Now I Know, Daylight is the second in a new series of anthologies from London-based publisher Pilot Press seeking contemporary responses to works of art made during the AIDS crisis.

In this second iteration, responses were sought to the 1981 painting 'Untitled No 1' (gesso, acrylic and pencil on canvas) by Agnes Martin. 

Contributors 

In order of appearance

Sig Olson, Jean Chung, Natalie Stypa, Eduardo Viveiros, Katherine Franco, Kitti Klaudia Harmati, Kate Morgan, Declan Wiffen and Betsy Porritt, Ryan Skelton, Huw Lemmey, Kyle Griesmeyer, Alton Melvar M Dapanas, D Mortimer, Jack Bigglestone, Carlos Kong, Donna Marcus, Wilder Alison, Vanessa Walters

Softcover
15 x 19 cm
56 pp

Printed on 100% recycled paper 


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The Moon and The Echo: Responses to The Moon and The Melodies (1986) by Harold Budd and Cocteau Twins 

The Moon and The Echo is the first in a new series of anthologies from London-based publisher Pilot Press seeking contemporary responses to works of art made during the AIDS crisis.

In the first iteration, responses were sought to the 1986 collaborative studio album The Moon and The Melodies by the late composer Harold Budd (1936-2020) and the Scottish dream pop band Cocteau Twins. 

Contributors 

In order of appearance

Michelle Hannah, David Nash, Ellen Dillon, Gabriel Ross, Maria Sledmere, Jack Jacques, Nick Blackburn, Harry Agius, Lauren de Sá Naylor, Femke Zwiep, Ondo Fudd, Richard Porter, Freya Johnson Ross, Paul Lee, Nina Ines Ward, James Dearlove, James Rance, Fred Carter, Jane Cope, Tom Benford, Mary Manning, Simon Moretti, Rosa Jones, Ishika Ball, Oliver Ridings, Nat Raha, Kevin McAleese

Softcover
15 x 19 cm
76 pp

Printed on 100% recycled paper 

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ZINES AND MISCELLANIOUS

 
TRUANT

Edited by Nate Lippens

Truant features writing and art that addresses queer self-exile: the stories of dropouts, throwaways and runaways; how withdrawal can be a matter of survival, refusal and renewal;  what we will not do, allow or accept, personally, politically and artistically; and the power of absence as presence.

Contributors 

jimmy cooper
Neil Davies
Matthew Gallaway
Zach Grear
Jason Haaf
Matthew Kinlin
Katie Kurtz
Lindsay Lerman
Nate Lippens
Fisher Main
Erik Moore
Eileen Myles
Elle Nash
Golnoosh Nour
Matthew Stadler
Ranee Zaporski

Cover image by Erik Moore

Softcover
19x21cm
62pp
ISBN: 9781739702946

For U.K. shipping: £10 (£6 + £4 p&p)

 
Consciousness Energy Grid


A pocket-sized zine containing the CIA's entire 'Gateway Process' document, a report written in 1983, and declassified in 2003, about using a series of exercises to produce states of expanded human consciousness such as astral projection, outer body experiments, and other altered states of mind. 

Softcover
10x15cm
32pp


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'A QUEER ANTHOLOGY' SERIES (2017-2020)
 

A Queer Anthology of Healing

‘A Queer Anthology of Healing is a subtle, devastating mix of cuteness and embarrassment, beauty and confession, magic tricks and pain. The artworks and writings in this collection suggest that healing can be achieved through revelation, invocation, observation and disclosure. It’s a much-needed gift right now.’ 

— Chris Kraus (author of I Love Dick / After Kathy Acker) 


Contributions by 

Clay AD
Harry Agius
Barney Ashton-Bullock
Dodie Bellamy
Jack Bigglestone
Nick Blackburn
Helen Cammock
Charity Coleman
Swithun Cooper
Paul Gabrielli
Evan Garza
Erica Gillingham
Daniel Givens
Pete Hammond
Benedict Hawkins
Georgie Henley
Lubaina Himid
Fanny Howe
Jasmine Johnson
G.B. Jones
Kevin Killian
Wayne Koestenbaum
Nic Lachance
Olivia Laing
Benedict Leader
Paul Lee
Mary Manning
Ben Miller
D. Mortimer
Monique Mouton
Annie Murrells
Chuck Nanney
David Nash
Isobel Neviazsky
Paul P. 
Richard Porter
Peter Scalpello
Hyacinth Schuss
Ryan Skelton
Verity Spott
Edward Thomasson
Timothy Thornton
Declan Wiffen
Ian Wooldridge

Softcover, A5


A Queer Anthology of Wilderness

Contributions by 

Harry Agius
Nick Blackburn
Patrick Carew 
Hamish Chapman
Simon Costin
The Estate of Jimmy DeSana
James St Findlay 
Clare Fisher
Daniel Givens 
Christopher Hartmann
Alex Howe
Eleanor Jenyns 
Princess Julia
Karen Kenst 
Olivia Laing
Zoe Leonard
Siobhan Liddell
Ant M Lobo 
Mary Manning
Jade Mars
Linden Katherine McMahon
Rebekah Morgan 
Julia Morgan 
The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic
Eileen Myles
Joseph Noonan-Galley
Richard Porter
Lux Pyre
Guy Rugeroni 
Peter Scalpello
Olivia Scott-Berry
Kelsey Sucena
Timothy Thornton
Urara Tsuchiya
Nathan Walker
Frances Worrall-Campbell

Cover artwork by Tabboo!

Softcover, A5


A Queer Anthology of Sickness 

Contributions by

Clay AD
Alex Margo Arden 
Lucy Bird
Nick Blackburn 
Jared Buckheister 
Harry Burgess 
Oisin Byrne 
Stephen Caruthers
Paul Coombs
Lara Alonso Corona 
Charlotte Cullen 
Genie Dallaway
Carl Ferrero 
Liv Fontaine 
Willie Gurner
Bonnie Hancell 
JD Howse 
Deming Huang
Andrew Hubbard
The Estate of Derek Jarman
Paul P. and G.B. Jones
Eliel Jones
Matthew Kinlin
Natasha Lall
Yvonne Litschel
Mary Manning
D. Mortimer 
Luke Nichols 
Kathy Tendril
Richard Porter
Steven Pottle
Daniel Ampulla 
Cornelis Rijneveld
Megan Rose
Guy Rugeroni
Olivia Scott-Berry
Tai Shani 
Andrew Sim
Mimei Thompson 
Tyfoid
Mark Walton
Robert Whitehead
Sam Williams
The Estate of David Wojnarowicz 
Ian Wooldridge

Softcover, A5

A Queer Anthology of Rage

Contributions by

Al Anderson
Rees Arnott-Davies
Tinder Ash
Will Ballantyne-Reid
Nick Blackburn
Violet Blonde
AA Bronson
Jennifer Browne
Jared Buckhiester
Harry Burgess
Scott Caruth
Tom Chetwode-Barton
CHRISTEENE
Matthew Collins
Paul Coombs
Beatriz Creel Garza Ríos
Hayley Dawson
Caitlin Doherty
Keith Edwards
Stuart Eggleton 
Gender Fail
Niven Govinden
Craig Green
Roman Greig
Sanja Grozdanic
Rosie Haward
Benedict Hawkins
David Hoyle
Alison Huber
G.B. Jones
Nicholas Kalinoski
Jay Keery
Carl Ferrero 
Chris Kraus
Olivia Laing
Gonçalo Lamas
Paul Lee
Hannah Levene
BUTT Magazine
Andrew Mallinson
Mary Manning
John Maybury
Andrew McDonald
Lucie McLaughlin
Dylan Meade
Fag Mob
Nick Naber
Paul P.
Ames Petrossi
Richard Porter
Rosie Quattromini
Kyle Quinn
David Rattray
Stuart Rawlinson
Holly Revell
Sarah Schulman
Olivia Scott-Berry
Verity Spott
Anika Steppe
Camilla Sterne
Richard Stott
Hannah Isobel Summers
Tom Tyldesley
Romily Alice Walden
Nathan Walker
Martin Wallace
Joseph Winsborrow
Nick Wood
Martin Youth

Cover artwork by Simon Prag

Softcover, A5

Read about this issue in:


Over There, A Queer Anthology of Joy

with contributors including Eileen Myles, Wayne Koestenbaum, Hilton Als, AA Bronson, Timothy Thornton, Sophie Robinson, Eley Williams and Honey Dijon.

Cover artwork by Richard Porter

Softcover, A5



Not here, A Queer Anthology of Loneliness

Contributions by

Nick Blackburn
Robert Chevara
Philip Cornett
Jez Dolan
Harry Freegard
Alice Goodman
David Hoyle
Paul Hughes
Marc Hundley
La John Joseph
Luke Kelsey
Ash Kotak
Olivia Laing
Jeremy Atherton Lin
Colby Keller / Donald Lynskey
Keguro Macharia
Mary Manning
Bertie Marshall
Neil McNally
Monique Mouton
Charlie Porter
Richard Porter
Heretic Radikal
Holly Revell
Sarah Schulman
Tim Spooner
Verity Spott
Mimei Thompson
Timothy Thornton
Urara Tsuchiya
Toby Upson
Eley Williams

Cover artwork by Anton Johnson 

Softcover, A5